How to Turn off automatic saving on web storm

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Warz picture Warz · Mar 24, 2013 · Viewed 35.5k times · Source

I am developing with meteor and Webstorm, being that meteor automatically updates the browser and Webstorm saves after you stop typing. It gets annoying. I checked my preferences and I can see that I have 'save automatically' unchecked. How do I completely stop the auto save feature in web storm ?

Answer

CrazyCoder picture CrazyCoder · Mar 25, 2013

Automatic save can be disabled using the following options:

File | Settings | Appearance & Behavior | System Settings > Uncheck these boxes below:

  • Save files on frame deactivation
  • Save files automatically if application is idle for...

Save options

Be aware that File Watchers feature may override this behavior for the specific file types (if enabled).

Save will also occur automatically on certain actions (running a configuration, IDE quit, project close, etc).

You may want to enable the option to mark modified files with *.

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