Re: auto-save in Mathematica
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- Subject: [mg108050] Re: auto-save in Mathematica
- From: David Reiss <dbreiss at gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 04:04:47 -0500 (EST)
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On Mar 5, 4:37 am, John Jowett <john.m.jow... at gmail.com> wrote: > As recommended here, I do save my notebooks frequently (and make > copies now and again, especially while coding intensively). However > an extremely useful supplementary technique is to use the "Bare Bones > Backup" described by DrMajorBob in this group a few years ago: > > http://forums.wolfram.com/mathgroup/archive/2007/Jun/msg00579.html > > This makes a palette with a button that saves a time-stamped version > of the notebook with all the output removed - generally a pretty small > file - in a backup directory. You can have hundreds of these, each > containing the essential stuff (i.e. that you typed yourself) as it > was at a given moment. > > I made some adaptations of my own to include the year in the notebook > name, choose my own location for the backup files, etc. > > John Jowett > > On Mar 2, 9:38 am, David Bailey <d... at removedbailey.co.uk> wrote: > > Also see the backup functionality in A WorkLife Framework: http://scientificarts.com/worklife In it all notebooks can be provided with at toolbar that has a backup menu.... --David > > > George Woodrow III wrote: > > > Checking this on Max OS X (10.6.2) -- > > > > I see no 'Save' icon, only style, alignment, Fonts, Print, Help. > > > > It would be nice to have a save icon, but I can't see how to add one. Some programs have a menu command to format the toolbar, but I can't find it in Mathematica. > > > You can, of course, create your own 'toolbar' by setting the DockedCells > > option on the notebook. > > > David Baileyhttp://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk