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Save Every Version Of Every Document--automatically
By David
Programmers have been using version control for a long time. With version control software, you first take a snapshot of a file or files in a folder. When you want to make a change to a file, you check out the file, make your changes, and check the file back in. If you look at the file you'll see the latest version including all your changes; however, the version control has transparently recorded the original version of the file and all changes you've made to it since.
The really great thing about version control is that you can restore the file back to any point in time. What sucks about it is you have to remember to commit the changes each time you want to create a new version.
Software such as Tortoise SVN has made this much more accessible to non-programmers, but there is an easier way, which I call automatic version control software. I've only discovered two programs that do this: AJC ActiveBackup and the freeware FileHamster from MogWare.
ActiveBackup and FileHamster work similarly. First, you configure the to watch a folder like My Documents. Then you use wildcards to specify which files you want to be version controlled and which ones you want excluded. For example, if you are watching My Documents, you would specify *.doc to record all changes to your Microsoft Word files, but might want to exclude *.tmp to keep the from recording changes to temporary files.
After you configure the watch, the will search the directory and take a snapshot of every file that matches your criteria. The automatically starts up when you boot your computer and takes another snapshot every time you save changes to a file.
Now you are truly free to make changes
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