Backup folder in Frame 7.0?

[Peter Hirons]

 I would strongly suggest giving the folders numeric names in the 
yyyymmdd format (e.g. 20080929) then you will be easily able to find the
latest.

Peter

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[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Art Campbell
Sent: 29 September 2008 12:34
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Backup folder in Frame 7.0?

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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