Backup folder in Frame 7.0?

[Art Campbell]

And building on that, you can, occasionally, convert them into a
snapshot backup directory.
Just move the files to a date-stamped directory of your choice:

/project/August_10/
/project/August_20/
/project/August_30/

As you reopen and save files in FM, the .backup.fms are created again,
so you have both a collection of last-saved files and incremental
backup directories.

Art Campbell

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On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Fred Ridder <docudoc at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Jack Molisani wrote:
>> I like that FM can make a backup copy of files, but I don't like the backup
>> files cluttering up the same folder as the source files.
>>
>> Is there any way to specify where FrameMaker 7.0 should create the backup
>> files?
> The "backup" files aren't really backups. Once you understand what they
> actually are it will become clear that they can only exist in the same
> directory as the working source files.
>
> The "backup" are actually the last saved version of the file but with a
> new, secondary filename extension. When you select the "Automatic
> backup on save" option, all that FrameMaker does when you do a Save
> is rename the previous version of the file with a .bak extenstion rather
> than flagging it for deletion by the OS. The "backup" is therefore always
> one save behind the working file unless you go to the extra trouble of
> making FrameMaker let you do two consecutive saves. If you save
> frequenty, the differences between the .bak and the workng file may
> not be major, but the .bak will *always* lack the last set of saved
> changes.
>
> -Fred Ridder
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