Re: FLASH: Help

[John Dowdell]

At 12:55 PM 10/20/98, Garret Parsons2 wrote:

>I was working on a file for about an hour saving often, when I get a city

>wide black out for 10 minutes. After the power is back on I restart my Mac

>and open the .fla file and yep you guessed it its toast. It seams like Flash

>puts the whole file in memory and doesn't save a temp file.


I'm sorry you lost your work. I've lost plenty of files myself, over the years.


One tip that might help: Do a "Save As" after every major milestone in the

work. I'll often "Save" every 5-10 minutes, and then "Save As" every hour

or so. I'll usually put a "1-2-3" type of identifier after the name of a

file, to make it easy to track versions. This gives me something to go back

to should a file get chewed.


Also be sure to "Save As" to a different hard drive every day or so, as

well. They say that the only people who haven't lost hard drives are those

who will, and so keeping copies spread among multiple drives is a good

practice.


jd




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