Request - _sgback cleanup or set files to .sgbak extensions

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tstanley
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Request - _sgback cleanup or set files to .sgbak extensions

Post by tstanley » Thu May 27, 2004 7:11 am

When the option Save files in backup folder before overwriting is enabled, it performs a very desirable feature of saving an copy of the file with an extension related to the time and date. However, after a period of working with this over time, the _sgback directories get cluttered up with unusefull junk.

I would like an option to either cleanup the _sgback directories in a working folder and subsequent sub folders - or (my preference) rename the files to a specific extension (.sgbak) when this backup is performed which I can perform a wildcard search for and clean up via Windows Explorer.

:)

tstanley
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Post by tstanley » Thu May 27, 2004 8:56 am

This feature had been nagging me and no sooner than I wrote the post, I realized I can search for _sgback and when I want to clean up I can delete all these directories.

I still think having it down to the file level would provide more options (like I only want to keep the last 30 - 60 days of files in _sgbak directories. The extension would allow me to do that.

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Post by dan » Tue Jun 01, 2004 7:22 am

This is on our list of things to do, and we'll add your request to it as well.

Thanks,

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