https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/temporarily-save-the-mxd-project-with-the-same/idi-p/942207 <P>Fellows, i usually work with .mxd projects and from one or more procedures steps, the ArcGIS simply stop working and appear that advise "not answering" so i loose the project since the last time i saved it. And also, sometimes, really often, i am going to save the .mxd project and appear an advise saying that i can not save that project with the same filename that it is and i have to create another filename dor the .mxd, so i have a lots of files (.mxd) with different names and small differences. What i would like arcGIS to have is the possibility of choose a periodicy of saving the .mdx projects automatically and also to save this files (.mxd) with the same name it is the actual filename! I appreciate if i can don´t loose my projects and to don´t have so many almost equal files with different names! Thank you!!! Marcos CS.</P><!-- content transformation source ID: 087E0000000kB0i --> Wed, 10 Jul 2024 17:24:08 GMT MarcosSerpa 2024-07-10T17:24:08Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/temporarily-save-the-mxd-project-with-the-same/idi-p/942207 <P>Fellows, i usually work with .mxd projects and from one or more procedures steps, the ArcGIS simply stop working and appear that advise "not answering" so i loose the project since the last time i saved it. And also, sometimes, really often, i am going to save the .mxd project and appear an advise saying that i can not save that project with the same filename that it is and i have to create another filename dor the .mxd, so i have a lots of files (.mxd) with different names and small differences. What i would like arcGIS to have is the possibility of choose a periodicy of saving the .mdx projects automatically and also to save this files (.mxd) with the same name it is the actual filename! I appreciate if i can don´t loose my projects and to don´t have so many almost equal files with different names! Thank you!!! Marcos CS.</P><!-- content transformation source ID: 087E0000000kB0i --> Wed, 10 Jul 2024 17:24:08 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/temporarily-save-the-mxd-project-with-the-same/idi-p/942207 MarcosSerpa 2024-07-10T17:24:08Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/temporarily-save-the-mxd-project-with-the-same/idc-p/1624881#M35213 <P>This capability is already offered in ArcGIS Pro.&nbsp; By default, an ArcGIS Pro project is automatically backed up every 5 minutes, but you can adjust this frequency in the Options dialog box, General tab:</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="NaicongLi_0-1750286914855.png" style="width: 486px;"><img src="https://community.esri.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/134604iDA9D0B37EC650DC8/image-dimensions/486x346?v=v2" width="486" height="346" role="button" title="NaicongLi_0-1750286914855.png" alt="NaicongLi_0-1750286914855.png" /></span></P><P><SPAN>Here is the Help topic regarding how we support backups for ArcGIS Pro:&nbsp;</SPAN><A href="https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/projects/save-a-project.htm#ESRI_SECTION1_090E953C44C54D35BC0DB35E35340FD4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/projects/save-a-project.htm#ESRI_SECTION1_090E953C44C54D35BC0DB35E35340FD4.</A></P><P>If you need to save different versions of the project, you can do so via Save project As, in the backstage of the the current project.</P><P>Thank you for your feedback.</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Wed, 18 Jun 2025 22:55:09 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/temporarily-save-the-mxd-project-with-the-same/idc-p/1624881#M35213 NaicongLi 2025-06-18T22:55:09Z