Active Archiving during File Editing

[TDinDC]

I am a new user of VV (I downloaded a trial just today, gave it a test run, found that it is easy to use, and promptly bought it and VVEngine). So pardon any naive questions.

My business is creating and selling musical arrangements. There have been many times that the application I use has crashed in the process of saving a new edit of an arrangement I'm working on, which is then corrupt. The result is numerous lost hours. The application itself does not have provision to create versions or archive copies.

Is it possible to use VV or the VVengine to run in the background whenever I'm using this application to actively monitor File Save operations (with a given file extension, of course) and ensure that the current version is archived before a new version is written?
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[TGRMN Software]

Hi, monitoring the "File Save" function is not possible, but if you run ViceVersa + VVEngine often enough you'll be able to recover from the archive a recent version , non-corrupted.

thanks
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[Guest]

I experimented more with archiving yesterday. I set up a folder filter to encompass the folder tree where I store all of the arrangements, and a file filter for the extension. This contains (at this moment) 736 folders and 8.959 files. And I used the synchronization method using "smart archive" and started VVLauncher. It took 5 to 10 minutes for each compare process. And it created the synch update OK the first time (there were errors on subsequent passes, according to the log file) but never created an archive of versions.

Thus, assuming I can get the archiving to work, (1) If I save more frequently than the time it took for a compare, versions would be never discovered; (2) I assume I'm going to have to create new (more limiting) folder filters each time I need the archiving service in order for the whole thing to run more quickly, or (3) change from the synchronize method to a simple source --> target update method to avoid CRC checking.

Please let me know your recommendations, and how to "fix" the issue that archiving doesn't happen. If I could figure out how to attach the log file I would have.

Thanks
TDinDC

[TGRMN Software]

Hello

do you need to copy each time you save the file ? Or just a copy every hour or so?

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[TDinDC]

I need a copy each time I save, as I never know when the program might crash (I will move to a newer version once it becomes stable )

The other thing, of course, is that the archiving function still has not produced any archive copies. Is there anything (log, profile, filter, etc.) that I can provide you to help find out what is going on?
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