AutoArchive Question/Issue

[PMMully]

I have an unusual one for me. I have X12 and X13 on same box. I do most work in x13. I have PLAN that I was up late last night working in X13. I hit the "Win-L" key to lock the screen when done. To my recollection I did not close out X13, nor did I do a manual save.  Maybe windows flaked out, and auto-rebooted on an upgrade. Bottom line, for some reason I lost some very detailed tedious work (ugh).

 

My autosave is set for every 10 minutes. I went into manage autoarchive management, and I see a few saved the plan and layout file about the right time. They are under the X13 archieve, all looks good. But when I click on one, it jumps into X12, and asks if I want to do a CA upgrade, any ideas?  The CA setup looks legit. I have negated the invitation to upgrade to date as to not honk everything up :-).

 

The screen shot follows, I am interested in the ~2AM times at the end. What is the "BAK" files versus the not "BAK" files on the same day (all this AM)?

[MarkMc]

That means that your system has Chief files associated with X12.

You can either: use "Open with" and select x13; open x13 and navigate to the file; and or open x13 -preferences-file management-associate files with this program.

 

Few tips- if I'm primarily working in X12 then I keep files associated with that. When I'm working with multiple versions (X12, 13 & 14) I set the color scheme for each to be obviously different so that I don't mistakenly save to a newer version than the client is using. Typically I require all work to be in the current version to avoid issues but do have one client on X12 right now, (made an exception since they are on a Mac but going forward will need to move to X14 upon official release.)

[PMMully]

Thanks @MarkMc, as I was driving this AM, I thought about that file association bit. Nice to have that validation.

 

One last question, the last 5 files at the bottom, on the same day, there is an XXX_auto_save.plan/layout, XXX_auto_save_bak.plan/layout, and finally an XXXAutoBackup.plan

 

I looked in the reference. Apparently the auto_save is for normal operation, the "bak" file is for abnormal termination, which is clearly what happened a few hours later. But I can not find any reference to the _AutoBackup in the reference manual. Any idea where this file came from?

[MarkMc]

Don't know. I rarely am using any bak files but glad they are there if I needed on I'd most likley get the newest. I'm more often using an auto archive file which I have set to hourly.

[Kbird1]

5 hours ago, PMMully said:

Maybe windows flaked out, and auto-rebooted on an upgrade.

 

Every second Tues of the month is Microsoft Update Tuesday , so it will have Updated outside whatever your  "Active Hours" are set for, both mine did yesterday too.

 

M.

[PMMully]

42 minutes ago, Kbird1 said:

 

Every second Tues of the month is Microsoft Update Tuesday , so it will have Updated outside whatever your  "Active Hours" are set for, both mine did yesterday too.

 

M.

 

Wow..... lucky me! Thank 'yall so much, stopped me from thinking I was nuts (ok... well as best I can...)!