Hello all,
Can you open a backup file without it overwriting the present version? So just browse through a backup file without properly restoring it?
Thanks in advance,
Carine
Copy the back up file to somewhere like your desktop, i.e. a different location to where the active project is and unzip it there.
As for looking through the backup without unzipping it, I believe you can do that on Windows (I’m a Mac-user), but to do that to identify if it has that footnote would be somewhat of a hassle, because you’d have to identify the internal folder that holds that particular Binder document and then find the specific related footnote.
Mark
The easiest way to do would be to rename the project like “Scriv Project earlier copy”. Back up current version before doing this. As long as the project folder has a unique name, then scrivener will not confuse with a current Project.
Then you can compare the two. Easier way is to use snapshots and save copies of earlier docu;;ment versions and can use compare to see differences.
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Thanks, copying the zip file to an external harddrive worked like a dream!
What I do is unzip the backup to a very clearly temporary location (like the Downloads folder), and upon opening it, I go into Project â–¸ Project Settings..., and in the Backup tab, disable backups for it. Now I can open and close it freely without cluttering up the backups folder (or worse, overwriting backups I want to keep from the main project).
Renaming it doesn’t hurt either, as that keeps the Recent Projects list cleaner so long as it still exists. For me though, I tend to discard them pretty quickly once I’ve done what I need to do with it.
That’s all there is to it really. There is no way for a backup to automatically overwrite the present version, as you suggest. I mean, unless you yourself deliberately go into File Exporer / Finder, and delete the current project and then extract the backed up copy to where it was. But, obviously that isn’t something you are doing, if you are asking how not to do that.
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My pleasure. I hope you’ve a) found your footnote, and b) that you have increased your backup number to 25 or more. It’s very easy for the default 5 to be overwritten by very recent versions.
Mark
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