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AppGameKit Classic Chat / Location of backup source code?

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AlexD66
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Posted: 20th Jan 2016 13:44
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I was tinkering in my code this morning and pressed f5 to compile. My windows 10 machine blue screened and when i started AGK2 up again, my source code was blank. the AGC file is 33k of nothing now. In DBpro , it would keep a backup of your source code in the install directory, does AppGameKit 2 do something similar? or is there a way I can recover my programme?

thanks for any help in advance!
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BatVink
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Posted: 20th Jan 2016 14:35
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I don't know the answer, but I haven't seen the files like the ones you talk about in DBPro. I recall you got an intermediary compiler file with all of the source amalgamated in the one file.

Thinking ahead, put your files in a Box or Dropbox folder, then it is always backed up.
Dropbox is better for code, because you can see up to 50 previous versions. Box charge extra for this ability.
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AlexD66
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Posted: 20th Jan 2016 16:19
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Buggrit. but thanks for the reply. I also notice there is a plugin in the plugin manager which gives some extra back up options. maybe it should be enabled by default
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Digital Awakening
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Posted: 20th Jan 2016 18:41
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At least once per day I 7zip my entire program folder (except music, bytecode and exe), add the current date to the name and upload to a backup/storage service. So I have backups of code, PSD files, screenshots etc.
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Zwarteziel
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Posted: 21st Jan 2016 14:12
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AGK2's uses 'Geany' as it's IDE. There are autosave- and backup-options avaiable for it (see here http://wiki.geany.org/config/all_you_never_wanted_to_know_about_file_saving), but I'm not sure if they are enabled by default. To prevent this sort of thing happening, you can consider saving to a cloud-storage solution. I myself compile my projects to a Dropbox-folder. It's ability to restore earlier versions of files has saved my work on numerous occasions.
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