User manual
Table Of Contents
- Bento® 4
- Welcome to Bento
- Overview of Bento
- Using Libraries
- Using the Address Book Library
- Migrating the iCal, iPhoto, and Address Book Libraries
- Using Collections
- Using Form View
- About Forms
- Creating Records in Form View
- Editing Records in Form View
- Duplicating Records in Form View
- Deleting Records in Form View
- Creating Forms
- Deleting Forms
- Showing and Hiding Forms
- Duplicating Forms
- Copying Forms
- Renaming Forms
- Locking and Unlocking Forms
- Adding Fields to a Form
- Tabbing Between Fields
- Moving Fields and Objects on Forms
- Resizing Fields and Objects
- Removing Fields from a Form
- Customizing Form Layouts
- Using Table View
- About Table View
- Selecting Records in Table View
- Creating Records in Table View
- Editing Records in Table View
- Duplicating Records in Table View
- Deleting Records in Table View
- Sorting Records
- Working with Fields and Columns in Table View
- Creating Fields in Table View
- Adding Fields in Table View
- Working with Media Fields in Table View
- Changing Options for a Field in Table View
- Completing Text Automatically as You Type
- Duplicating Fields
- Changing the Field Type
- Showing and Hiding Columns
- Deleting Fields in Table View
- Reordering Columns
- Resizing Columns
- Filling Fields Automatically
- Summarizing Column Data
- Using Grid View
- Using Fields
- Importing, Exporting, and Printing
- Backing Up and Restoring Information
- Syncing
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Reverting to a Previous Version of Bento
- Index
124 Chapter 11 Backing Up and Restoring Information
About Bento Backup Files
When you create a Bento backup file, you create a copy of the data that is in Bento. The
backup file contains the data in your libraries and collections at the time you run the
back up command.
Important The Bento backup file does not contain the data from the Mac OS Address
Book and iCal applications. You should back up your Address Book and iCal data
whenever you back up your Bento data. However, if you add fields to the records in the
Address Book library, the iCal Events library, or the iCal Tasks library, then the data in
those additional fields is included in the Bento backup file.
Backing Up Address Book and iCal Data
• To create a backup of the data in the Mac OS Address Book application, use
the Address Book application’s archive feature.
• To create a backup of the data in the Mac OS iCal application, use the iCal
application’s backup feature.
How Field Types Are Backed Up
Consider the following when you back up file list fields, media fields, or related data
fields.
For Bento backs up
File list fields The listed filenames and locations, but not the contents of the files.
Media fields The contents of the fields (for most media fields) because Bento stores copies of the
media files.
However, if you use aliases to media files rather than copying the media files into
bento.bentodb, Bento backs up the filenames and locations of the files that are added
to media fields, but not the contents of the files. You should back up these media files
to a location in the Finder.
Related data
fields
The data shown in related data fields, because these fields show data from libraries
and collections.
However, Bento does not back up the data from the Address Book, iCal Events, and
iCal Tasks libraries. If you use related data fields that reference those libraries, the
related data is based on the data in the Mac OS Address Book and iCal applications.