Re: auto-save in Mathematica
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- Subject: [mg107994] Re: auto-save in Mathematica
- From: John Jowett <john.m.jowett at gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 04:29:33 -0500 (EST)
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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: > 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