Originally Posted by
Acorn
Zaahir, the problem you are faced with is an uncontrolled crash of the XDA.As well as losing filenames, you will also lose any last changes that were not saved.
You have no way of knowing if any action, including a Save, might cause a crash. Luckily, these are fairly infrequent but can arise with large design files or numbers of them.
With over twenty files open, you are risking quite a lot.
I would use Xara's Automatic Backup options for both saving every 15 minutes and backing up on closing the application.
Next, I would close and re-open the application every 30 minutes.
On closing, if you have a crash, you have only lost, at most, 15 minutes of changes.
If the XDA closes and re-opens, I would Save the files you were going to save. A crash at this point loses nothing.
You could also possibly try a document tab right-click > Save As instead of a normal Save; it is possible Xara has different code for this.
To show how concerned I am about losses, my Backup folder is on a separate drive to the file save location. My file saves are to a Dropbox folder.
Weekly, I copy my file saves to a third drive.
I ensure my customers have versioned updates on a regular basis.
Acorn
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