backup files on desktop(and everywhere else)

geeyathink · 11-13-2007, 03:57 PM

Any ideas what I may have done to cause backups of all files I create to automatically be made?
They seem to be created in the same location as the originals but I suspect it might be links to the backups that are appearing not the actual backups.

Thanks for any help,

matthewg42 · 11-13-2007, 04:13 PM

By backups, do you mean files with ~ appended to the name?

geeyathink · 11-13-2007, 05:33 PM

Thanks matthewg42,

Yes that is it. I looked at the properties and it called them a "Backup File"

matthewg42 · 11-13-2007, 06:24 PM

This is just a naming convention which some programs use... not all though.

What program do you use to exit these files?

geeyathink · 11-13-2007, 06:50 PM

To exit them I am not sure what that means. I create the text file with Kate. To be more accurate the "backup" does not appear on the desktop (KDE) until I enter some text in the original and save it.
I can open and close a file all day and the "backup" does not appear until I do like I said above.

geeyathink · 12-09-2007, 04:27 PM

Bump,

Any ideas where I could find settings to change this. The odd thing is I almost certainly did this through a GUI app. But cant be 100% sure. I have done some things on the command line that I did not really understand what I was doing while trying to follow instructions to install and or modify things.

matthewg42 · 12-09-2007, 07:39 PM

By exit, I meant edit... typo.
Kate has some options to control the naming convention used for backup files... Go to settings -> configure kate -> editor -> open/save. At the bottom of that section you should see "Backup on Save", and in there some options to change the backup file naming convention.

geeyathink · 12-10-2007, 05:22 AM

Thanks matthewg42

I found it. I'm not usually that lame (almost but not quite) I really got into some kind of tunnel that I did not think of looking there.

I appreciate the help.