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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 Web Designer MX Premium 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.
Recovering from abnormal program closures
If you have automatic backups turned on and the program closes abnormally (perhaps due to a power
failure for example) the program should detect this when it is next restarted. It will then offer you the
chance to restore the most recent backup version of each document that was open at the time of the last
backup.
Abnormal closure will not be detected if no automatic backup completed since the last normal program
closure.
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