If anyone owns FileXtra3 they should write a backup utilty for director using the
fx_FolderSyncOneWay command. I would do it but i don't own the xtra.
--jR
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In a message dated 3/5/2003 11:02:30 AM Eastern Standard Time, Howdy-Tzi <[EMAIL
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>On Wednesday, Mar 5, 2003, at 09:27 America/Chicago, Tim wrote:
>
>> CAUTION : When protecting a movie or casts, MAKE A BACKUP!!! because
>> once it's protected, you won't be able to do anything to it. I
>> used the backup option when protecting my movie, but for some reason,
>> it didn't back the files up, and had to create the casts
>> again, and li,k every thing back to it.
>
>Yes. Always, always, ALWAYS back up your code *by hand*. All it takes
>is one mistake to hose months of work, and Director's built in backup
>option seems to be a little unreliable.
>
>What I do is create a "release" folder that contains duplicates of all
>my stuff as I expect to protect, package and release it. That way I
>know for certain I'm nuking only the files in that release folder. It's
>not that different in principle from having a "source" versus a
>"target" or compile directory for lower-level language IDEs.
>
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