General information
about Backup Files


IMPORTANT NOTES:

Notice that Pretty HTML has the benefit to work in 3 modes:

Therefore the method how backup files are created is not always the same.

Be aware:  Like in any other application, a backup file is always created from the last state of your HTML file!! If you are just playing around with Pretty HTML (we know, many users love to do this), don't forget to restore your files everytime.

 

When working with a single file or with a range of files from the same directory, all backup files will be created inside of this directory with the extension ".pbak".

Example:
Source files is: c:\web\mypages\myfile.htm
Backup file is:  c:\web\mypages\myfile.htm.pbak

 

When working with a "Directory Tree" Pretty HTML will copy the whole tree structure with the original HTML-files, to a 'new created' backup directory. In this case the backup files will still keep their original file extensions. They are only transferred to another location on your system. So it’s easy to restore them with any windows file manager.

Example:
Source directory is: c:\web\mypages...

The backup directory could be:
c:\web\mypages_bak00....
or
c:\web\mypages_bak01....
and so on.

An existing backup directory will not be overwritten. If a backup tree already exists, a new tree with a new number, will be created (e.g. c:\web\mypages_bak01\.... and so on).

(Note: in each tree backup directory you will find a log-file named "report.txt", with useful informations about this directory)
(Note: you can disable creating backup’s in the Options Window)

No new backups will be created after editing and after restore!