FILEMONKEY FAQ
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Backing Up FilesThe following tutorial will teach you how to back up your files using the command line backup script. Every file on your computer has an archive attribute (flag). This flag can take 2 values, TRUE or FALSE. A TRUE value means that the file has changed since it was created. A FALSE value means that the file has not changed since it's creation. You can view the attributes of any file on your computer by right-clicking on the file and selecting "properties". This will open the properties window for that file. At the bottom of this window, you will see displayed the attributes for that file including the archive attribute. The command line backup script checks the archive attribute of each target file If the archive attribute is FALSE then the script will take no action on that file and move on to the next target file. If the archive attribute is TRUE then the script will copy that file to a specified location (a backup folder) and then reset the archive attribute of the target file to FALSE. Your computer will set the archive attribute of a file to TRUE in the following situations: The file was just changed The file was just created The file was just renamed * The file was just copied to it's current location * When you first use the backup script, it may backup more files than you would expect. This is because there may be files on the target path that have been copied there. When a file is copied, the archive attribute of the copied file is set to TRUE. For example, all target files could have an archive flag of TRUE. This means that your computer thinks that all of these files need backing up. To check which target files have a TRUE archive flag, you could use the FileMonkey "List" feature (Set it to search archive targets). You could use the "Attributes" feature of FileMonkey to change all archive flags to FALSE but then the backup script will not find any files to backup until you make changes to these files. Here are step by step instructions on using the backup script:
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