Seriously just how fast do you think you type to need a backup every 10 seconds? The average typing speed, ... is about 187 characters per minute.

Drafts are automatically saved after 5 minutes as this makes for a reasonable volume of changes for most folk. This can be reduced in preferences to a minute, but your results at such cycles would have a lot to do with server speed, network latency and other outside variables. 5 minutes is probabnly adequate for the vast majority of us as operating systems tend to be much more stable than 30 years ago.

Matt -

Thank you for your reply. I did not realize, when posting here, that I was inviting commentary on my personal choices. I wasn't. I was asking a specific question about a functionality -- which you failed entirely to address.

Interesting, too, that the link you supplied (https://wordcounter.net/blog/2016/04/29/10984_what-is-an-average-typing-speed.html) does not support your claim that "the average typing speed is about 187 wpm". In fact, it states: "A good typing speed for most people is 40 words per minute or over. . . . If you’re a professional typist, you can probably type 75 words per minute . . . the world record . . . is 150 words per minute . . . our world-record typist could reach a speed of 212 words per minute."

If one does a slight further bit of investigation, they will find: "On a manual typewriter, the world record is 176 wpm, and on an electric typewriter it is 216. In an official test in 1991, Gregory Arakelian of Virginia set the personal computer record with 158 wpm. According to The Guinness World Records, the fastest typist is Barbara Blackburn, who in 2005 (on a Dvorak keyboard) typed 212 wpm."

So, unfortunately, your claim about the average speed is unsupported factually.

Since I regularly keyboard at 120 wpm accurate, I am comfortable with both my skill and my need for a fast backup.

Thank you. Hope you're well and have a pleasant holiday season.

BTW: Thunderbird composition settings does, I have discovered, have capacity to set autosave at every 1.0 minute. . .

You asked, I answered about what the product can do.

Hikermann said

Matt - Thank you for your reply. I did not realize, when posting here, that I was inviting commentary on my personal choices.

Do you know of an application that offers backups at 10 second intervals? Anything that does it at less than 1 minute? Please I want to know seeing as you asked specifically about that incredibly short time frame. Am I commenting on your "personal choices? No just trying to in a polite sort of way point out your assumption is not appropriate and offer some sort of explanation why.

I was asking a specific question about a functionality -- which you failed entirely to address.

I suggest you read the following again. Are you sure you are not jumping to a conclusion?

Matt said

Drafts are automatically saved after 5 minutes as this makes for a reasonable volume of changes for most folk. This can be reduced in preferences to a minute, but your results at such cycles would have a lot to do with server speed, network latency and other outside variables. 5 minutes is probabnly adequate for the vast majority of us as operating systems tend to be much more stable than 30 years ago.

So what was your discovery really, that a minute (singular) can also be written as 1.0 minute?