My work-flow for dealing with backups from FrameMaker sessions ... Was: RE: Best practices for converting FM to Robohelp

[Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain@aeris.net)]

Okay ... :)

I don't really need them anymore but just like the idea of keeping them too (per my belts and suspenders approach) ... they have not hurt me in any way that I know of.

For what it is worth, storage is cheap today ... so I simply copy them off into a subdir and delete them before I start working.

Z

-----Original Message-----
From: robert.lauriston at gmail.com [mailto:robert.lauriston at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Robert Lauriston
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2014 11:33 AM
To: Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net); framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: My work-flow for dealing with backups from FrameMaker sessions ... Was: RE: Best practices for converting FM to Robohelp

The .backup files were essential before 7.2 added undo, but since then they have seemed to me to cause more trouble than they avoid. I can't recall having had a problem where they would have been useful. It seems like a legacy feature.

On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Syed Zaeem Hosain
(Syed.Hosain at aeris.net) <Syed.Hosain at aeris.net> wrote:

> FWIW, I don’t like/use the idea of disabling the automatic backup 
> feature within FrameMaker as mentioned by Robert Lauriston – even 
> though my editing session work-flow does not strictly need them anymore.