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Backing up Montages
The Audio Montage has a special backup mechanism, which allows you
to maintain previous versions of saved Montages, and have the Audio
Montage automatically saved. It works in the following way:
• Each time you save the Audio Montage, the previously saved version is copied to
the subfolder “Backup.mon” (in the same folder as the Audio Montage file).
This backup folder is automatically created by WaveLab. The backup files are named
“Montage_#X”, where “Montage” is the name of the Montage and “X” is a number.
• You can specify how many previous versions you want to keep.
The maximum number of stored backup versions is 1000 (this is possible since Montage
files are small, containing no audio data). Once the specified number of backups has been
created, the oldest file will be overwritten each time the Montage is backed up.
This means that the numbers in the backup file names are not related to the
age of the backup files. Instead, you need to check the dates of the files to
know which backup is the most recent.
• “Untitled” Montages (that are not yet saved) are also backed up.
The backup files for “Untitled” Montages are saved in the Windows temporary folder, and
use a number as Montage name, so that the files are called “Y_#X”, where “Y” is a number
identifying the Montage and “X” is the number of the backup file. Once the Montage is
saved, these “temporary backup files” can be discarded.
Setting up
You make backup settings in the History view:
1. Select the History view by clicking the History tab.
2. Pull down the History view : Backup menu and select “Backup options…”.
The Backup options dialog appears.
3. Specify how many previous versions you want to keep (0 to 1000), in the
“Number of backups” field.
Setting this to 0 is the same as turning off the backup for the Montage.