On 1/13/09 at 8:21 AM, [email protected] (le...@gmail) wrote:
>On 13-Jan-2009, at 08:49, Rich Siegel wrote:
>>On 1/13/09 at 10:31 AM, [email protected] (le...@gmail) wrote:
>>> My issue is not with the save to the WebDAV. My issue is with
>>> BBEdit's complete and utter failure to write the backup file. It
>>> says it does this *before* so that should not have been an
>>>issue. Instead I get a backup file that is 40+ minutes old.
>>
>>The backup that BBEdit makes before saving is not of the
>>contents of the document in memory, but of the file that was on
>>disk immediately before the save commences. Perhaps that
>>explains what you observed?
>
>Er.. I would not call that a backup then, I would call that a
>"restore" document, oro something similar.
Isn't that what a "backup" file is for -- to restore a file to
the state it was in before you saved changes to it?
>So, when BBEdit 'backups' the file, it writes the OLD file to
>the backup location and then writes the new data to the file?
That's what it would mean in every situation I know of where a
program makes a backup before saving. The changes made would be
in the original file, i.e., the one you're working on, and the
previous version would be in the backup file.
>Then why is the time stamp on the 'backup' identical to the
>file on the webDAV server? Is it actually not making a new
>file, but instead copying the old one?
Not sure what exactly happened with your webDAV saving problem,
so it's impossible to answer this.
>Sigh. I guess I need to make sure and save every file twice.
So you want the backup to be the same as the original file?
It's painful to lose work with a failed save -- my sympathies.
But unless I've misunderstood, you seem to be caught in a thinko
about what a backup file is. Are you using backups for version
control, perhaps?
- Bruce
_bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_
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