[cryptoz]

Those people are exceedingly rare. And I'm sure applications won't autosave huge files; if they do there would be large performance hits. Most files that need autosaving are basic documents, maybe pictures. 99.9% of the time autosaving is a good idea.

If your autosave makes you run out of disk space, you're probably "doing it wrong".

[robotresearcher]

> Those people are exceedingly rare

They are not so rare at this point in history - many people use a laptop as their main/only machine, and the move to SSD shrunk my disk by 3X. Space is going to be tight for a couple of years - I traded it for great performance.

[chc]

It seems pretty small-minded to blame the user for "doing it wrong" because an application used up all his hard drive space with no way to disable it. What would "doing it right" consist of? Just not using the application at all?

[tesseract]

I suspect "you" in the last sentence was meant to refer to the application developer.