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Document handling 51

We recommend that you always save documents regularly. A complicated document
may represent many hours of work and power failures or computer crashes always
happen at just the wrong moment. Make sure you have the automatic backup facility
turned on, so that regular backups are taken of your open documents as you work. See
the Automatic Backups (on page 52) section below for details.
Save option (on the File menu)

("Ctrl + S", or click the SAVE button on the standard control bar.)

This provides a quick way to save a document using the same file name. The option is
disabled unless the document has unsaved changes, i.e. you have made changes, but
haven't saved them yet.
For a new document that has not been saved, this option acts like "Save as" (described
below).
Save as (on the File menu)

This opens a dialog box letting you save the document under a different name or to a
different directory. This option is useful for making backups of Designer Pro documents.

Save all (on the File menu)
This acts like a series of SAVE or SAVE AS commands to save all currently open files.

Support folders

Some documents which are used to create websites need to reference external files
which cannot be embedded in the .xar design file. For example you may have a Flash
(.swf) file which is used on your website and so you’ll want to keep that file with the
design file because you can’t export a fully working website from the design file without
also having the Flash file.

So Xara Designer Pro X uses an optional “support folder” right alongside the design file
to hold these important external files.

Support folder naming
The design file and its corresponding support folder are tied together by their names. The
support folder for “mySite.xar” is always “mySite_xar_files”. This naming convention
makes it obvious which support folder belongs to which design file. So if you rename,
copy or move a design file, always remember to do the same to the corresponding
support folder, if it exists! And if you send a design file to someone else, send any
support files folder along with it.

If you load a design that has a support folder, and then subsequently do a SAVE AS to
save another copy of that design, Xara Designer Pro X will copy the whole support folder
too, if there is one.