Brian, Drew:
Thanks for this information.
Or are they saved somewhere else?
Yes: back-up files are saved in a separate, single directory. (This
means, of course, that different files with the same name in different
folders overwrite each other's back-up files, which may not be ideal
behaviour.)
Scary -- because in fact it is my habit for some operations to copy
files to another directory.
Why not put them in the same folder as the base file?
I give up: why not? ;^)
Because the OOo developers didn't think through the implications and
provide a way of automatically nominating the base file's home directory
for autosave, recovery or whatever, that's why. And changing the
back-up path for each project is the way to madness (and at some stage
you would forget to do it -- that's why we employ computers to remember
stuff for us). 8^)
If FrameMaker crashes, it leaves behind *.lck, *.backup.fm, *.auto.fm,
*.recover.fm, and *.fm files. Opening any one of the four *.fm files
causes FM to determine which is the most recent and offers to open
that for you instead.
FrameMaker saves all these files in the current base file's directory:
*.fm -- the base file and most recent manual save
*.lck -- UNIX-style lock file for groups accessing shared folders; also
uses each OS's native file locking
*.backup.fm -- the version before your last manual save
*.auto.fm -- the automatic periodic save; does not affect *.fm or
*.backup.fm
*.recover.fm -- a MIF file saved to disk from RAM by a monitor daemon
when the application crashes; the file containing the current state of
the file and likely most similar to *.fm or *.auto.fm.
When recovery occurs, it is always the *.recover.fm file that is opened,
in a MIF format despite its extension, where MIF is a text
representation equivalent to RTF, so you even have some chance of fixing
the file in a programming editor before attempting to reopen it. FM
always warns you that you are opening a recovery file and therefore it
may be damaged or content may be missing or scrambled. But I have never
lost any work for over 16 years from a crash and the recovery file has
always been intact!
Beat that, Word, WordPerfect, OpenOffice.org, etc.
Regards,
Hedley
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