Stephen Babb Posted October 25, 2023 Posted October 25, 2023 Upgraded Publisher to 2.2.1 this morning, and since then Publisher makes a .afpub~backup~ of my files, at random. What is going on? And how do I turn this off?? Quote
walt.farrell Posted October 25, 2023 Posted October 25, 2023 It's definitely .afpub~backup~ and not .afpub~lock~ ? I haven't seen anything but the lock files, so far. Can you tell what you're doing just before the backup file is created? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
Stephen Babb Posted October 25, 2023 Author Posted October 25, 2023 11 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: It's definitely .afpub~backup~ and not .afpub~lock~ ? I haven't seen anything but the lock files, so far. Can you tell what you're doing just before the backup file is created? It is definitely a .afpub~backup~ file. And I have not been able to pinpoint a reason, as it is random. Sometime when I minimize the file it happens, but not consistently. My wife and I are both using versions 2.2.1 on a network, working with a set of 20 publisher files (not at the same time). I can edit 4 or 5 different files, save and close, and it might make a backup file on one of them (not all). Same for her. After a couple of hours of work, we have a backup file for each of the set of 20. We are using two different paid versions of Publisher 2.2.1. Quote
walt.farrell Posted October 25, 2023 Posted October 25, 2023 Interesting. Are the files on some kind of network drive (which?), or local to your machines? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
Stephen Babb Posted October 25, 2023 Author Posted October 25, 2023 6 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: Interesting. Are the files on some kind of network drive (which?), or local to your machines? The files are on a separate MacOS computer on a network (wifi), and are not local to the two Macs we are running Publisher on. We haven't had this issue until updating to 2.2.1 this morning. walt.farrell 1 Quote
carl123 Posted October 26, 2023 Posted October 26, 2023 We need more information from Serif as to what these ~backup~ files are. E.g. When they are created? (network only drives or all drives?) How they work? Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time.
Staff Lee D Posted October 26, 2023 Staff Posted October 26, 2023 The ~backup~ files are created when our files go through a streamlining process, removing redundant data that's no longer needed. If the process is successful the files should be deleted, if not it replaces the current .af file and then is deleted. @Stephen Babb Can you see the ~backup~ files if you browse to the save location you're opening the files from using Finder? If so can you take a screenshot for me and if possible a screen recording of your workflow. Could you also check to see if the save location has any permission restrictions, just in case. walt.farrell 1 Quote
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