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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><font face="Verdana">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.<br>
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Perhaps instead of calling these "filename.backup.fm" it should
have been "filename.lastgood.fm".<br>
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If you want real backups, you need to set up a mechanism for
copying the current files elsewhere for safe keeping.<br>
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...scott<br>
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On 2/11/15 2:10 PM, Fred Ridder wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">David Artman wrote:<br>
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<blockquote>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 <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://backup.fm" target="_blank">backup.fm</a> files
(you DO automatically save <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://backup.fm" target="_blank">backup.fm</a> files
every save, riiiight? ;) )</blockquote>
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</span>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. <br>
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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.<br>
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-Fred Ridder<br>
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