Asemblance Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 Hi All, This is hopefully a very quick question with an obvious answer I'm overlooking.. Autosave options in Vectorworks are pretty straightforwards. I have it set to update every 15 minutes to 'a backup folder in the same place as the original file'. Great; it creates a folder called 'VW Backup' and I can see all the autosaved .vwx files in there. But what are the '.bak. files which seem to be littering the folder where the main .vwx files are saved? Do I need to keep these? Should I keep deleting them? I've never really understood what they are. Thanks! Quote Link to comment
Nicolas Goutte Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 If I remember well, some VW employee (Jim Wilson?) had explained it somewhere in the forum. VW tries to save the file by first saving a new file, renames the old file to the backup file name, then renames the new file to the old file's original name, delete the backup file. So probably the Backup-Files (.bak) were kept, as something went wrong along the line (possibly just VW could not delete the backup file). 1 Quote Link to comment
Nicolas Goutte Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 Even if it is not the post or thread I meant, you may see also Quote Link to comment
Asemblance Posted June 27, 2019 Author Share Posted June 27, 2019 Thanks @Nicolas Goutte that makes sense. Time for a bit of a file clearance then! Quote Link to comment
Chuck Davidson Posted October 29, 2019 Share Posted October 29, 2019 TIP: If you change the .bak suffix to .vwx the .bak file will convert to a useable VW file. 1 Quote Link to comment
E|FA Posted October 29, 2019 Share Posted October 29, 2019 I just posted another relevant tip to another thread: I use a separate external drive specifically for automatic backup files. It keeps things off my main drive(s). You can set the save location from Vectorworks (menu)-> Preferences... -> Autosaves -> Autosave a backup copy to -> A custom location -> Choose... 2 Quote Link to comment
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