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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.