Steve Erbach
erbachs at gmail.com
Mon Feb 7 08:27:55 CST 2005
Greg, Rocky, John, I do a similar thing with backup names. I use a 4 character date code appended to the name of the mdb: 5, for 2005 b, 2nd letter of the alphabet for the 2nd month of the year 07, for the day of the month Then I'll add an A, B, C, etc., for different backups during the same day. I had a backup from less than a day before, but the thing that just got me hopping-up-and-down bewildered and confusticated is: why on Earth did the INACTIVE code window disappear when I selected some text to delete in the ACTIVE window and pressed the Delete key? I'm going to assume it was because I had the Project Explorer open and somehow I activated that window and had the INactive code window highlighted before I pressed the Delete key. Steve Erbach Steve: Sorry to hear about that. Been there and done that. In Access there was a way to recover a table, form, etc...but I never could figure out how to do it. You were "insufficiently paranoid". Which makes me, what, sufficiently paranoid...? To keep from doing what you are about to HAVE to do (go back to yesterday's code) I use a more "paranoid" scheme to keep from losing my programming. Well, at least too much of it. I name my program file, let's say, GWSDB-020405 at 1501.mdb, and when I make any significant changes (which can be defined as...anything more than what I want to retype or recode or redesign...), I make a copy of this file, store the original in another folder on another drive on another computer/server (see...told you...paranoid), and rename the copy to the current time. That way there are no duplicates. The next day, start with a new copy with a different date and new time. This has saved my clumsy fingers more than once. And it takes me all of one or two minutes to do that...so I think it's worth the time. And, oh yea, I take a copy offsite when I go home. Paranoid might be an understatement... None of this will help you now...but maybe in the future...:) Greg Steve: Day late and a dollar short on this but I have a compulsive habit if hitting Alt-f-s a LOT. If I really screw up (it happens) I close the app without saving and have my last save to go back to. I also make a backup to my second machine and to the thumb drive every time I close the app for lunch or potty or to go to another task. I'm not paranoid, I really am out to get me. Rocky On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 16:06:49 -0600, John Bartow <john at winhaven.net> wrote: > A streamlined way of doing what I do. Close the app, copy and paste it. I > usually have dozens of copies of the same app. > > Copy 1 of App.mdb, Copy 2 of App.mdb... > > I clean them at the end of a major successful coding experience. > > John B.