Layout Autosave file location

[Marc]

Yes, but it may not help depending on your Time Machine settings.

Take a look at my post (#8) in this thread:

Layout auto-save not working

Hi- The auto-save function in LayOut works like this: A LayOut file is secretly a .zip file. When a file is opened it is unzipped into a temporary directory, and then read into memory so it can be edited. When an auto-save happens, all of the in-memory changes are saved back into the temporary directory. (When a manual save happens, there’s an additional step where this updated temporary directory is zipped up and copied to wherever the file should be saved.) When LayOut closes normally, th…

Here’s some more info:

Layout file recovery

There are two mechanisms in LayOut that are designed to avoid loss of work. Backup files. When you manually save your LayOut file, the existing file on disk will be moved to a “backup” file name. On Mac, the backup name has a tilde appended. On windows, it has “backup of” prepended. This guarantees that you’ll always have two copies of your current file - the most recent saved version, and the previously saved version. This guards against crashes that happen during file save, and also guards …

Let me know if that doesn’t answer your questions.

M