Would it be possible to make the location of the Atlantis folder (which is currently installed in My Documents, and the location of which can't be changed) customizable?
I don't know if the reason is trivial. It's simply when you use an application like Dropbox to automatically backup work files to the cloud, it installs itself as a folder in My Documents too. This means that in order for files to partake of this backup option, they have to be in the Dropbox subfolder of My Documents, i.e. anything in the top level of My Documents (like the Atlantis folder) doesn't partake in that.
Of course I can backup the Atlantis folder manually, or by some other means. But if the location were customizable, I think I know what I'd do...
(Maybe there are good technical reasons for not making the location customizable, I don't know.)
Location of Atlantis folder
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franklekens
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Thanks, I'd already done that. It's not my text documents I'm concerned about, but anything else Atlantis saves in the Atlantis folder, especially templates. I have to remember to back them up manually now if I edit those or create new ones.
It's no big deal, just wondering if it was possible. (And if there's any need for this among users. If not, so be it. Plenty of other programmes also don't allow it either, they'd save the templates in some subfolder of the Windows appdata folder, not allowing you to change *that*. So ithat's pretty common.)
It's no big deal, just wondering if it was possible. (And if there's any need for this among users. If not, so be it. Plenty of other programmes also don't allow it either, they'd save the templates in some subfolder of the Windows appdata folder, not allowing you to change *that*. So ithat's pretty common.)
I use Personal Backup for my own purposes. It is a safe backup program. It can be set up to back up new files and/or folders automatically. It is free. It includes an add-on to back up the Thunderbird folders.
You could use Personal Backup to automatically back up your Atlantis folders to your Dropbox folder. Dropbox would take up from there.
Here is an excerpt from the help:
Robert
You could use Personal Backup to automatically back up your Atlantis folders to your Dropbox folder. Dropbox would take up from there.
Here is an excerpt from the help:
HTHOverview
Personal Backup is a program for saving personal data to any destination folder. This folder may be located on a local fixed or removable drive, on a Windows network server or on an FTP server. The 32-bit version runs under Windows 7,8 and 10 (32- & 64-bit), Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Windows Server 2003/2008/2012, the 64-bit only under Windows 7,8 and 10 (64-bit) and Windows Server 2008R2/2012.
You can configure and store as many backup tasks as you wish. The selection of the files to be backed up is made on a by-folder basis. All subfolders are included automatically, but the user can exclude or include any subdirectories from or in the backup by selection or by filter. Additional criteria are selection by file type, file age and/or file name filter.
At the destination folder the original drives (C:, D:, etc.) appear as subdirectories named LwC, LwD, etc. The original directory structure remains unchanged beneath these folders. Optionally all data can be compressed and/or AES algorythm-encrypted.
Performing the backup can be done manually or automatically. By default during the backup the program checks whether the file to be saved is newer than one already backed up. Only files with newer timestamps and, of course, files not yet have been backed up are saved. An alternate criteria is the archive bit of the files.
In addition it is possible to call a one-click backup of a directory with all its files and subdirectories using the Windows Explorer context menu. The destination directory and the other settings (backup mode, compression, encryption, etc.) will be taken from a selectable task (the default task).
Automatic backup can be started on login, at a selectable time of day, on logout or on shutdown. You can make scheduled backups with destination paths changing daily or weekly.
For individual schedules it is easy to start a backup using Windows Task Scheduler. The configuration can be made using a program internal wizard.
In addition there are functions to verify and restore backed-up data and to delete selected files and directories.
The program has full Unicode support which overcomes the ANSI (ISO-8859) filenames limitations on copying files. Also pathlengths may be longer than 260 characters.
Robert