{"id":602,"date":"2010-01-23T10:14:16","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T09:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spikesoft.ch\/?p=602"},"modified":"2010-04-12T19:47:16","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T18:47:16","slug":"word-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spikesoft.ch\/?p=602","title":{"rendered":"Word Backup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A little bit of history (Word 5.1 1992)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With Microsoft Word 5 there was a small little option that allows you to tell Word to save every open document at a regular time interval (15 minutes for example). How this functionality was implemented was trivial. It only performed a regular &#8220;Save&#8221; or &#8220;Save As&#8230;&#8221; at the parameterized time interval. This worked nicely and everything was in order.<\/p>\n<p>With such an implementation two goals where reached:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If the Word crashed, you will have, in the      worst case, lost 15 minutes of work<\/li>\n<li>If you made a mistake and forget to save      your work, you will have, in the worst case, lost 15 minutes of work<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Current time (Word 2008)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Somewhere in-between Word 5.1 and Word 2008 (I cannot say more precisely, because here, at home, we had such an upgrade path), this functionality didn&#8217;t disappear but the implementation changed. Now this functionality has been splited in two parts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spikesoft.ch\/wordpress\/upload\/2010\/01\/WordPrefs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-605\" title=\"WordPrefs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spikesoft.ch\/wordpress\/upload\/2010\/01\/WordPrefs-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.spikesoft.ch\/wordpress\/upload\/2010\/01\/WordPrefs-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.spikesoft.ch\/wordpress\/upload\/2010\/01\/WordPrefs.jpg 458w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first one being fairly useless and      called &#8220;Always create a backup copy&#8221; which as the name says only      create a &#8220;Backup Copy of &lt;your_document_name&gt;&#8221; file for every document you      created.<\/li>\n<li>The second one being &#8220;Save      AutoRecovery info every:&#8221;. This option allows Microsoft Word to      recover a file after a crash.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Everything seems to be in order, except that now we don&#8217;t have a protection against the user who quit Word without saving his whole day work (Yes it can happen, believe me).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Word Backup<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Having recognized the problem and noticed that there is no &#8220;ready-to-use&#8221; solution, I decided to create a palliative solution. The provided piece of software reintroduces the old behavior of Word 5 with the newest version of it. An additional benefit of this script, when run on Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6, is that you not only have access to the latest backup version but also to the history of it thanks to Time Machine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Download<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spikesoft.ch\/wordpress\/upload\/2010\/01\/WordBackup.zip\">WordBackup 1.0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spikesoft.ch\/wordpress\/upload\/2010\/01\/WordBackup1.1.zip\">WordBackup 1.1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[update]The new version provided, logs the saved documents&#8217; name under <code>\/Library\/Logs\/WordBackup.log<\/code>[\/update]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little bit of history (Word 5.1 1992) With Microsoft Word 5 there was a small little option that allows you to tell Word to save every open document at a regular time interval (15 minutes for example). 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