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Backup open documents
To turn backups on select this checkbox and choose how often you would like backups to be taken.
The suggested period is 10 mins, which means each open document will be backed up if it's more than
10 mins since the last backup of that document was taken (or since the document was created or
opened).
Note that once the configured period since the last backup has expired, the next backup is only saved
when the program has been idle for at least 15 secs. This is to avoid interrupting your work as much as
possible and to avoid backing up the document while it is being actively modified. In normal use it's
unlikely that there won't be regular inactive periods of 15 secs or more, allowing a backup to be taken
soon after it is due. But note that if you are actively editing for an extended period of time it could be
significantly longer than the configured backup period before the next backup runs.
The Automatic Backup facility does not save modifications to open 'edit inside' sub-documents. Only the
parent main document is saved when a scheduled backup runs, in its current state without the unsaved
group edits. For this reason it's recommended that you save 'edit inside' edits back to the parent
document regularly.
When a backup is taken, you'll see the save progress bar appear at the bottom of the Web Designer MX
Premium window while the save is completed.
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.
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