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[Scott Prentice]

I think that the idea of the FM "backup" files is to provide *something* 
in case the current file gets corrupted in some way. It's better to lose 
the last edits to a file than to have the current (possibly corrupt) 
file overwrite what was a good file.

Perhaps instead of calling these "filename.backup.fm" it should have 
been "filename.lastgood.fm".

If you want real backups, you need to set up a mechanism for copying the 
current files elsewhere for safe keeping.

...scott

On 2/11/15 2:10 PM, Fred Ridder wrote:
> David Artman wrote:
>
>     5) Generate output and peruse. DO NOT save FM files yet! If it
>     boked a couple of times, fix thm; if it borked a ton; rollback to
>     your backup.fm <http://backup.fm> files (you DO automatically save
>     backup.fm <http://backup.fm> files every save, riiiight? ;) )
>
> No, in fact I *don't* let FrameMaker generate .backup.fm files because 
> they aren't really backups. They are just renamed versions of the 
> *previous* saved version of the file.
>
> Say you open a document FileA.fm. You make a whole slew of changes, 
> and then do a Save. You figure that the newly saved FileA.fm is 
> identical to FileA.backup.fm because you had FrameMaker make a 
> "backup" upon saving, right. Wrong. FileA.backup.fm is the *original* 
> file that you opened, *before* you made any changes to it. The 
> "backup" is always one set of changes behind the content that a real 
> backup would have in it. (And since Frame won't even let you do a Save 
> unless you've changed *something*, the current saved version and the 
> "backup" can *never* be identical.) So rolling back to the automatic 
> "backup" will actually lose you the last set of changes that were in 
> your last save.
>
> -Fred Ridder
>
>
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