Nisus Writer Express - Manual (Page 242)

222 Setting Preferences
~/Documents/Nisus Documents/Backups
This file is removed when you manually save your file by choosing Save from the File menu or
you close the document and choose to discard changes (for example when you quit Nisus Writer
Express).
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The backup file is only used in the unlikely incident of Nisus Writer Express crashing. If a crash
occurs, the next time you start Nisus Writer Express a dialog appears asking if you would like to
recover the backup of your autosaved file(s). It is likely that the recovered file has additional changes
to your document made since you had manually saved the file, and is, therefore, more current.
The recovered files are listed in the Document Manager.
Have Nisus Writer Express automatically create backups of your work
Every time you save a Nisus Writer Express file the application can automatically rename the file on
disk to “File Name*” and then save the modified version of the file you had in memory. The process
is as follows:
1. User initiates a save.
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All of what follows is done automatically by Nisus Writer Express, without you having to pay any
attention to the procedure.
2. Nisus Writer Express checks if the user has the “keep prior copy” option enabled. If so:
3. If the last prior copy already exists, delete it, eg: remove “file*”.
4. Make a copy of the current file on disk using the preferred suffix, eg: copy “file” to “file*”.
5. Save the in-memory document to disk using a temporary file name, let’s call it “temp”.
6. Swap the temporary file with the desired final location, eg: swap the file “temp” to be “file”.
7. Check if the user has the “keep additional copy” option enabled. If so:
8. If the last additional copy exists, delete it, eg: remove “/backups/file”.
9. Copy the just saved file to the secondary location, eg: copy “file” to “/backups/file”.
Steps 5 and 6 are handled largely by the Macintosh OS, which sets up the temporary location and
does the swapping. It (should be) implemented in such a way that the last copy of the file won't be
overwritten unless the current save operation is a complete success.
Save the original file as a “backup”
▶ Check Keep prior copy of each file using the file name suffix: from the Backup section of the
Saving portion of the Preferences. Nisus Writer Express comes set so that an asterisk “*”
appears at the end of the file’s name.
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If you do not check this option, once Nisus Writer Express has saved the modified file to disk,
it removes the original file.
Set what Nisus Writer Express appends to the previous copy’s file name
1. Check Keep prior copy of each file using the file name suffix: from the Backups section of
the Saving portion of the Preferences.
2. Type what you want appended (up to four characters) in the text box where the * appears.
Nisus Writer Express does not limit you to the number or type of characters you can use in this
string.
If you do not check this option, once Nisus Writer Express has saved the modified file to disk, it
removes the original file.
Save an additional copy in another location
1. Check Save Duplicate Copy of each file to another location from the Backups section of the
Saving portion of the Preferences.
2. Click Choose….
3. In the variant of the Open File dialog that appears, navigate to where you want to have the file
saved and then click Choose Folder.
You can choose a folder on any attached hard drive.
Set the preferred format and encoding for saved files
You can choose the particular standard format for the files you create and save
▶ From the Default format pop-up menu of the File Formats portion of the Saving preferences,
choose either
• Rich Text Format (RTF)
• Rich Text Format Directory (RTFD)
• Microsoft Word Format
• Text
You can override this preference when you save a file if you choose Save As….