Backup
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Backup
Hi,<br><br>This question may be quite silly but keeps me awake at nights. I have been working with ELAN during several months and always have been wondering where ELAN saves the data of the tiers and the annotations. I have tried to make a backup copy from ELAN and from all the materials that I have been working on but so far I have just managed to create the backup copy to the external hard disk only from ELAN itself but not from the materials that I have been working on. <br><br>So my question is how to make backup file from ELAN so that when my computer craches all the work that I have done won't disappear?<br><br>-laura-<br>
Re: Backup
ELAN stores tiers and annotations in ".eaf" files. With the first "Save As" you determine where each document should be stored. If you regularly back-up these files you should be save.
Apart from that, you can also activate automatic back ups every n minutes, for your everyday work.
-Han
Re: Re: Backup
Thank you for your answer! Now I have backup copies. Still there were some problems that I had to sole. I don't kown whether I can explain this so that you understand but I'll try. When I several months ago saved my firs work I created the new folder through Elan (the little box in the right of the Elan's save as window "Create New Folder"). So I stored all my work in this folder. Always when using Elan I could open my previous works from this folder. But when I wanted to find this same folder for examlpe throug "My Computer" I coldn't find this folder anywere. Like the folder didn't exist. Therefor I couldn't make any backup copies either. So yesterday I saved all my works in totally new foldre that I had created without Elan. Just now I can find my previous work ".eaf" fils in my computer and make backup copies. This is quite mysterious but some how my computer didn't recognize the folder that I created through Elan.<br><br>Best wishes,<br>Laura<br>
Re: Re: Re: Backup
Hmm, that is peculiar. Normally the new folder is created in the directory that is "open" or visible at that particular moment in the save dialog. Well anyway, as long as you know where the files are now...
-Han
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