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Re: VB project backup utility

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From	Dee Earley <dee.earley@icode.co.uk>
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On 06/06/2011 01:20, -mhd wrote:
> "Mayayana"<mayayana@invalid.nospam>  wrote:
>>   Frankly, it's hard to imagine anyone being so
>> disorganized that they need special software just
>> to perform housekeeping on project folders. I always
>> back up projects I'm working on. I just drag the folder
>> to a partition on my 2nd hard disk and then do periodic
>> CD writes. Why does that need special software?
>
> I have automatic backups nightly to another drive so its not a matter of being
> disorganized. I often need to write custom mods for clients so I used the prior
> mentioned addin to produce a working copy of the project in a new folder that I
> can use as a sandbox.

Here is definitely where a source control system will come in handy 
where you can very easily clone/branch the development, yet still pull 
in updates from the main one.
Personally, I use Mercurial and swear by it after the POS that is 
SourceSafe :)

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VB project backup utility -mhd <not_real@invalid.com> - 2011-06-04 22:00 -0400
  Re: VB project backup utility "Nobody" <nobody@nobody.com> - 2011-06-04 23:10 -0400
    Re: VB project backup utility -mhd <not_real@invalid.com> - 2011-06-04 23:41 -0400
  Re: VB project backup utility ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2011-06-04 22:13 -0500
    Re: VB project backup utility -mhd <not_real@invalid.com> - 2011-06-04 23:54 -0400
  Re: VB project backup utility "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2011-06-05 10:02 -0400
    Re: VB project backup utility -mhd <not_real@invalid.com> - 2011-06-05 20:20 -0400
      Re: VB project backup utility ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2011-06-05 23:51 -0500
      Re: VB project backup utility Dee Earley <dee.earley@icode.co.uk> - 2011-06-06 10:11 +0100
        Re: VB project backup utility ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2011-06-06 10:52 -0500
          Re: VB project backup utility Dee Earley <dee.earley@icode.co.uk> - 2011-06-06 17:09 +0100
            Re: VB project backup utility ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2011-06-07 09:41 -0500
              Re: VB project backup utility -mhd <not_real@invalid.com> - 2011-06-07 23:04 -0400
                Re: VB project backup utility ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2011-06-07 23:06 -0500
                Re: VB project backup utility -mhd <not_real@invalid.com> - 2011-06-08 10:43 -0400
                Re: VB project backup utility "Nobody" <nobody@nobody.com> - 2011-06-08 10:49 -0400
                Re: VB project backup utility -mhd <not_real@invalid.com> - 2011-06-08 11:24 -0400
                Re: VB project backup utility "StrandElectric" <Strand@dummyspit> - 2011-06-09 06:51 +1000
                Re: VB project backup utility Dee Earley <dee.earley@icode.co.uk> - 2011-06-09 09:42 +0100
                Re: VB project backup utility -mhd <not_real@invalid.com> - 2011-06-08 10:44 -0400
                Re: VB project backup utility ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2011-06-08 14:05 -0500
          Re: VB project backup utility -mhd <not_real@invalid.com> - 2011-06-06 12:52 -0400
            Re: VB project backup utility ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2011-06-06 14:09 -0500
  Re: VB project backup utility "Tim Rude" <timrude.nospam@nospam.hotmail.com> - 2011-06-06 10:40 -0500
    Re: VB project backup utility -mhd <not_real@invalid.com> - 2011-06-06 13:28 -0400
      Re: VB project backup utility "Tim Rude" <timrude.nospam@nospam.hotmail.com> - 2011-06-06 13:27 -0500
        Re: VB project backup utility -mhd <not_real@invalid.com> - 2011-06-07 01:07 -0400

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