2013

Document handling 57
Backup location
User the BROWSE button if you want to change the folder where your backups are
stored.
You can access the backup documents saved here at any time using the "
FILE" >
"
OPEN RECENT" > "BACKUPS" menu option. This opens a file dialog onto your backup
folder so that you can browse, open, or delete any of your backup files.
Revisions
By default up to 10 revisions of each design are kept in your backups folder, but you
can choose to change this number in the revisions field. Older revisions in excess of
the number chosen are deleted automatically. Each backup file is named using the
name of the document from which it is taken, suffixed by the date and time at which
the backup was taken.
Warning: Note that if you have multiple documents that share the same filename in
different folders on your computer, their backups will also share the same names in
the backups folder. Therefore try and use unique filenames for your designs to avoid
the backups of one design overwriting another with the same name.
Untitled documents
Documents that you have created and not saved are backed up using the name
"Untitled" followed by a number and the date/time. This name and number
corresponds to those shown in the titlebar when you are editing new unsaved
documents.
Warning: Since all new unsaved documents are named Untitled1, Untitled2, etc.
backups of these documents are likely to be overwritten relatively quickly. Therefore
you should always save important documents with a unique name of your choice, so
that you can easily identify backups of that document in the backups folder.
Backup open documents on program close
The Backups tab in the Options dialog also allows you to turn on AUTOMATIC BACKUP
AND RESTORE
. When this option is on, when the you close MAGIX Page & Layout
Designer 2013 you will not be prompted to save any modified documents that you
have open. Instead all open documents are backed up to the backups folder and the
program closes. Then when you next start the program, the same documents are
automatically reloaded so that you can continue working where you left off.
Note that if you have any "Edit inside" sub-document views open, these are silently
closed and saved back to the main document when the program is closed, and the
main document is backed up. The ‘edit inside’ sub-document views are not re-opened
on next program start. See editing inside groups (on page 121).