Sorry to burden the list with a newbie question but i’m 4 days into being a lifetime Freeway user.
I looked thru the posts and FAQs for the location of the automatic backup setting. BEFORE you jump to a conclusion, I mean the project file auto save. I just got burned by accidentally reverting to previously saved (which was 2 days ago). Thinking Time Machine would bail me out I didn’t worry too much about leaving the project open for a day. Unfortunately, I can’t find any previous version of the project.
The posts elude to an automatic backup but the one I have checked in the prefs didn’t seem to do much.
Freeway makes a backup after each successful re-opening of a project.
So if you make some changes to a project, and save, you have the
current file at that point, and the backup is whatever shape the
document was in when you last opened it.
In the case of a newly created document, that will mean exactly
nothing, there won’t even be a backup, because the document has never
been closed and then re-opened.
Walter
On Jul 10, 2008, at 12:27 PM, Tony Diodato wrote:
The posts elude to an automatic backup but the one I have checked
in the prefs didn’t seem to do much.
Sometime around 10/7/08 (at 12:27 -0400) Tony Diodato said:
Sorry to burden the list with a newbie question but i’m 4 days into
being a lifetime Freeway user.
What a nice way to start your first post! Welcome.
The posts elude to an automatic backup but the one I have checked in
the prefs didn’t seem to do much.
What you get is a backup of the project the FIRST time you save it in
a work session. It doesn’t automatically save every [n] minutes, and
it doesn’t update the backup every time you save. Just the first time
after you open a document. It is useful at times, but please don’t
rely on it!
Stepping away from being specific to Freeway for a moment, here’s how
I see this sort of thing: If you never totally rely on any form of
automatic backup, it’ll probably end up saving your bacon one day.
Rely on it, and you’ll eventually find yourself well and truly
stuffed.
Freeway’d site documents can get rather larger and take rather longer
to save than is practical for maintaining a frequent automatic
backup. If you have a document open and unsaved for two days then I’m
afraid you really are asking for trouble. Not because Freeway’s
unstable - I’ve had no problems on that score with recent versions.
But because Murphy likes to apply the law from time to time. A
judicious and regular use of the Save and the Save As commands are
what you need, both within Freeway and - I suspect - in your other
apps too!
(I’m sorry to hear about the lost work though! Better luck next time.)
Not quite. It rolls the project backup if the user hits save, closes
the project, and then re-opens it. The backup is from the last
successful open, not the last successful save.
Walter
On Jul 10, 2008, at 12:56 PM, Tony Diodato wrote:
So the Enable Backups setting in Prefs>General is simply rolling
the project file if the user hits Save.
Freeway’d site documents can get rather larger and take rather longer to save than is practical for maintaining a frequent automatic backup.
No doubt you are right for some documents, but we really do need a choice here. My documents don’t take that long to save and I’m more than a little irritated to have to redo my last hour’s work because Freeway did just unexpectedly quit. Naively I thought that “keep backups” really meant something, but I now see that it means damn all.
in my opinion Freeway should include automatic backups as a selectable choice. Why couldn’t it back up in the background? My computer could handle the overhead I’m sure.
I meant it: I do have to redo my last hour’s work and I am now somewhat grumpily embarking on that very task!
