Proposed Auto Save Function

kpassaur · Post by **kpassaur** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 1:03 pm

I started using the the Auto Save feature in Ver 12. Naturally it is great, but I don't think I work like everyone else.

I strictly use the script editor and place my files in a logical file folder structure. Reason being is I compile everything and it makes sense for me. The auto save function saves the backup scripts in the same folder as the script itself along with the file that remembers the settings for what was folded. (.fol file)

No big deal, until you edit things for a while, you end up with 4 or 5 scripts and 30 or forty files to go through. It would be nice if you could set a path for all backups and fol files to go to, or perhaps have them automatically go to a subfolder of where the current script is stored. Either would work and simplfy things.

Even if it was a line in an ini file that you could edit to set the path would work.

I suppose the logic is to have the user keep cleaning out the backups as they accumulate. I don't mind wasting disk space with backups (now that it so cheap), but it is sort of a pain when you are deleting the files four or five times a day and always concerned that I hope I dont' delete a scp file by accident.

Post by **Marcus Tettmar** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 1:31 pm

It is only supposed to keep three backups. So you should never need to delete anything.

kpassaur · Post by **kpassaur** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 1:45 pm

Okay, with 8 scripts, 24 backups, and 8 fol files it is forty files with similar names. Sort of a pain for me. Perhaps I am the only one. I suppose I could keep each script in a separate folder so there would only be one out of five to choose from.

What I have been doing is when everythng seems to be okay, I sort on file type and delete everything except for the script itself. But that sort of defeats the purpose.

gdyvig · Post by **gdyvig** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 2:27 pm

Hi kpassaur,

Perhaps you need separate version control software. You can get TortoiseSvn for free fromhttp://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/. It allows you to keep unlimited versions of each file. Normally only the most current version is visible from Windows Explorer, but you can easily find and compare versions of each file. You would only need to save the scp version of the script files.

Isn't there a lot of redundancy in your current backup system? Most of your extra files will be duplicates of the backed up scp files.

Gale

Post by **Marcus Tettmar** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 2:29 pm

I mentioned TortoiseSVN and version control in this blog from 2007:

http://www.mjtnet.com/blog/2007/10/26/v ... r-scripts/

I agree - the way Keith is working, he should be using version control.

kpassaur · Post by **kpassaur** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 3:32 pm

I will check out TortoiseSVN, currently what I also do is save all daily changes as a backup. So I can go to any date and pull up the version from that date.

The difficulty is in me being slow, I work on something all day and don't what yesterdays version but one from a couple of hours ago. It looks like TortoiseSVN will handle that for me.

Proposed Auto Save Function

Proposed Auto Save Function

backups

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