1. automatically saved by a computer program without user intervention
Usage: computing; common in modern software

1. past tense and past participle of autosave; to save a document or file automatically
Usage: computing; transitive

Examples

• The document was autosaved every five minutes.
• My presentation autosaved before the computer crashed.
• I found my autosaved file in the recovery folder.
• The software autosaved my work so I didn't lose anything.
• Check the autosaved versions if you need to restore an earlier draft.
• The spreadsheet autosaved to the cloud automatically.