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2002-10-12 |
• ArchiCAD 9 |
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• Mac OS X |
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• average users |
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Technical people might find the following information concerning the Save operation of ArchiCAD interesting:
- There is a file already with the given name, the Original file.
A new file is created alongside the original file called ArchiCAD.SCR on (Windows), ArchiCAD.scratch on the Mac OS (If the name is already taken by a locked file, ArchiCAD (from 6.5 R3/v3 on) will try to save ArchiCAD.scr1 or ArchiCAD.scr2 and so on. If the scratch file is not locked, it will be deleted.)
- Data is accumulated, compressed and written out to ArchiCAD.SCR
- The file is closed, the original file is either moved to a back-up folder, renamed to a back-up or deleted.
- The scratch file is renamed to the original file's name.
This sequence is desirable, because if at any point of the saving process the file is not written out correctly, the process is aborted, and the original file is retained. This method is safe however we suggest to keep project files in separate folders for practical reasons.