Re: [MacPerl] Finder Rollbacks

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 09.26 -0500 1999.02.01, Raffael Cavallaro wrote:
>>From: bart.lateur@skynet.be (Bart Lateur)
>
>> A bit later, the Mac crashes. When you run the droplet again, you see
>> the same bug pop up again: so the Mac has silently replaced the newer A2
>> with the older A1. (Note: this doesn't always happen. That makes it far
>> more difficult to track down.)
>
>This is why I keep off line back-ups of important projects. That is,
>whenever I save a version to my hard drive, I also Save-As... a version to
>some removable. This way, when the Finder "fixes" a disk problem, you still
>have the latest version on Zip, MO, floppy, etc.

Much of my important work is done on offsite systems, using BBEdit + FTP;
in those cases, it is important to keep an ON-site backup.  I often just
drag and drop the contents to a clipping file, rename it, and drag it to a
backup folder.  I like the clippings because I know they won't be edited or
changed; they are a snapshot of the last major revision.

Of course, that doesn't scale well, but it works for most things I do.  For
more complicated stuff, CVS seems to work well, and I am going to start
using CVS more often (I promise :).

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