Add an option "autosaving off" in config file

[oricou]

I love Jupyter but autosaving is my nightmare. When collegues hear me shouting, autosaving is probably responsible.

Because of autosaving

• using git becomes difficult since all notebooks that I openned to look at are modified and I need to check each one, make a diff to be sure and checkout back most of time
• my notebooks at work and at home destroy the work of the other. I work all day on a notebook, I come back home, I reconnect and the version at home erase all the work I have done during the day, thanks to autosaving.
• I cannot try things and decide to forget everything by quitting without saving, it is already saved...

I saw many users tried to cancel autosaving. I tried c.ContentsManager.autosave_interval = 0 in the config file, it doesn't work. I have seen tricks to be done in the custom.js, none worked.

Please, could we just have an autosaving off option in the config file?

You may envoy autosaving, you may thing is it the right way, but why do you force others to thing like you?

Olivier.

[RRosio]

Thank you for opening this issue @oricou. You can specify the setting in the Notebook 7 file browser page by: Settings > Document Manager > Autosave. If you are in a notebook, you can get to the file browser by using: View > File Browser.

There is also the overrides.json in which you can override this setting via a config file.

If neither of these work for you please let us know and we can reopen this issue!