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54      Document handling

                Revisions
                By default up to 10 revisions of each design are kept in your backups folder, but you can
                choose to change this number in the revisions field.  Older revisions in excess of the
                number chosen are deleted automatically. Each backup file is named using the name of
                the document from which it is taken, suffixed by the date and time at which the backup
                was taken.

                Warning: Note that if you have multiple documents that share the same filename in
                different folders on your computer, their backups will also share the same names in the
                backups folder. Therefore try and use unique filenames for your designs to avoid the
                backups of one design overwriting another with the same name.

                Untitled documents
                Documents that you have created and not saved are backed up using the name
                "Untitled" followed by a number and the date/time. This name and number corresponds
                to those shown in the titlebar when you are editing new unsaved documents.


                Warning: Since all new unsaved documents are named Untitled1, Untitled2, etc. backups
                of these documents are likely to be overwritten relatively quickly. Therefore you should
                always save important documents with a unique name of your choice, so that you can
                easily identify backups of that document in the backups folder.

                Backup open documents on program close

                The Backups tab in the Options dialog also allows you to turn on AUTOMATIC BACKUP AND
                RESTORE. When this option is on, when the you close Xara Designer Pro X you will not
                be prompted to save  any modified documents that you have open. Instead all open
                documents are backed up to the backups folder and the program closes. Then when you
                next start the program, the same documents are automatically reloaded so that you can
                continue working where you left off.
                Note that if you have any "Edit inside" sub-document views open, these are silently
                closed and saved back to the main document when the program is closed, and the main
                document is backed up. The ‘edit inside’ sub-document views are not re-opened on next
                program start. See editing inside groups (on page 99).

                Recovering from abnormal program closures
                If you have automatic backups turned on and the program closes abnormally (perhaps
                due to a power failure for example)  the program should detect this when it is next
                restarted. It will then offer you the chance to restore the most recent backup version of
                each document that was open at the time of the last backup.

                Abnormal closure will not be detected if no automatic backup completed since the last
                normal program closure.
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