AutoSavePlus – Automatic Project Saving for QGIS

AutoSavePlus is a QGIS plugin that automatically saves the current project at user‑defined time intervals.
The autosave setting is global, meaning that once enabled it remains active across all QGIS projects and sessions until manually disabled.
This ensures continuous protection against data loss, regardless of which project you are working on.

The plugin is fully compatible with QGIS 4 and Qt6, supports internationalization, and includes both English and Italian translations.

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Features

• ⏱️ Automatic project saving at configurable intervals (1–1440 minutes)
• 🌐 Global autosave behavior: once enabled, autosave remains active for all QGIS projects and sessions until manually disabled
• ⚙️ Settings dialog with interval selection and enable/disable option
• 💾 Persistent settings stored via QSettings (per QGIS profile)
• 🔄 Uses the native QGIS “Save Project” action
• 🌍 Multilingual support (English and Italian included)
• 🧩 Clean plugin structure (ui/, resources/, i18n/)
• 🧱 Fully compatible with QGIS 4.x and Qt6

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Usage

1. Open the plugin settings from:
2. Choose the autosave interval (in minutes).
3. Enable or disable automatic saving.
4. The plugin will save the project automatically using QGIS’s native save action.

Autosave remains active across QGIS sessions until manually disabled.

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Translations

Translation files are located in:

Available languages:

• AutoSavePlus_en.qm – English
• AutoSavePlus_it.qm – Italian

To add new languages:

1. Generate a .ts file.
2. Translate using Qt Linguist.
3. Compile to .qm.

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Compatibility

• QGIS: 3.34+, 4.x
• Qt: Qt6
• Python: 3.10+

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License — MIT License

Copyright (c) 2026 Dr. Geol. Faustino Cetraro

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Author

Dr. Geol. Faustino Cetraro
Scientific communicator, software developer, and author of professional technical books for over 20 years.