# 5513- Backup and Saving Issues

Automatic Backup
To automatically back up your files, you must enable the Make Backup on Save option.  To do
this click Tools, Preferences, General. This default option will create a backup file for all
component files when you save an entire publication and will create a backup file when you save
an individual graphic file or text files using the Rename File command. All backup files will be
saved in the same directory in which you save the publication and component files. The first letter
of the three letter extension will contain the dollar sign (.$HP, .$XT, .$TY etc.).


Prompt to Save the Chapter
You should enable this option if you would like the application to automatically ask you to save
the chapter when you open, move between chapters, exit the program or perform document-wide
operations such as generating indexes, tables of contents or renumbering. To access this option
click Tools, Preferences, General, and enable the Prompt to Save option.

Caution: When Prompt to Save Chapter is turned off, changes are not saved automatically when
you click File, New or Open, or when you click View, Go to Chapter. 


Prompt to Save All Component Files
A Verbose Save will prompt you to name the chapter, style sheet as well as the publication,
instead of the publication only. Without this option enabled your style sheet and your chapter file
will take on the same name as the saved publication file.