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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



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