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78 Document handling

is being actively modified. In normal use it’s unlikely that there won’t be regular inactive
periods of 15 secs or more, allowing a backup to be taken soon after it is due. But note
that if you are actively editing for an extended period of time it could be significantly
longer than the configured backup period before the next backup runs.

The Automatic Backup facility does not save modifications to open ‘edit inside’ sub-
documents. Only the parent main document is saved when a scheduled backup runs, in
its current state without the unsaved group edits. For this reason it's recommended that
you save ‘edit inside’ edits back to the parent document regularly.

When a backup is taken, you’ll see the save progress bar appear at the bottom of the
Xara Web Designer Premium window while the save is completed.

Backup location
User the BROWSE button if you want to change the folder where your backups are stored.

You can access the backup documents saved here at any time using the "FILE" > "OPEN
RECENT" > "BACKUPS" menu option. This opens a file dialog onto your backup folder so
that you can browse, open, or delete any of your backup files.

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 Web Designer Premium you