Some filenames ending with tilde

José Matos jaomatos at gmail.com
Tue Mar 7 09:44:13 UTC 2023


On Tue, 2023-03-07 at 07:38 +0100, Daniel CLEMENT via lyx-users wrote:
> Hmm... Makes sense. 
> 
> I used to do that by putting all the .lyx~ in my dedicated /backup
> directory, and emptying it periodically. But then, regular files from
> various directories happen to have the same name, so the
> corresponding .lyx~ files would get overwritten.

Without looking into the code I suspect that the backups are not
overwritten since if the name is already taken then a new file is
created appending the directory name (using ! as the directory
separator). At least that is my case after setting a backup directory
and nothing else.

-- 
José Abílio


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