Spent a couple of hours on highlighting sections of a document in Acrobat Pro. It crashed as it often does, sometime multiple times a day. when I restart it, all my edits are lost and docs that I haven't edited don't reopen. There's no files to recover from where they are supposedly saved every 5 minutes and there's no real help to deal with it. Classic 'enshittification' where companies make their product worse and worse by spending less money on it while pumping up profits. Sucks. It used to be so much better.

I had the same issue. Lost 3 hours of work. Awesome.

That's because there is a long-standing bug in the software. When you set up automatic saving (select automatically save document changes to temporary file every XX minutes" it changes your user preferences in the AppData>Roaming...UserPrefs file. Except, instead of setting the parameter as "1", it sets it as "true". I'm assuming this was just a typo in the code that hasn't been corrected for years. If you manually go into that file and change "true" to "1", then it works perfectly.

Hi,

Thanks for reaching out.
You can set Autosave changes from 1-99 minutes. Here are the steps to do so -
1. Hit CTRL+K on win or CMD+K on mac
2. Goto Documents in categories
3. Under save settings set the time to 1 min (in case you want to save it ASAP)

After setting this if you acrobat is auto-closed, it will prompt you to recover old files in next launch.

Do let me know in case you need any further info.

Thanks,
-Ravi Gupta