Longer file name...

James Wilde james.wilde at sunde-wilde.com
Thu Dec 31 12:04:07 EST 2009


On Dec 31, 2009, at 17:39 , Fred Bone wrote:

> On 31 December 2009 at 11:12, Ken G. said:
> 
>> How do you turn on the 'autodelete' function?  
> 
> Preferences / General / Retain log files.
> (Despite the name, it also governs the .xac files).
> 
> I can't remember what the default setting is.
> 
>> When I 'saved as' this
>> morning to a shorter name, a folder was made that contains all past saved
>> files.  In addition to the folder, a new xac and log files with the
>> shorter name were made.  None of the old files with the longer name were
>> deleted.
> 
> I find it hard to believe that a simple "save as" creates a new folder 
> and moves a bunch of files into it from where they had previously been.

It doesn't on the Mac at any rate.  The files remained in the directory.  However, when closed GC, removed them and restarted GC, the result was right.

//J


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