Visio 2003 should be able to create automatic backups like Word.

[Punctilious]

Other MS Office products such as Word and Excel offer a feature to
automatically create a backup copy of a file when it is saved, thus
protecting critical information and providing the ability to recover the last
update. There are even unique file types for Word and Excel backups. However,
Visio does not offer this, even though the creation of diagrams may be time
consuming and critical to the enterprise.

Actually, this feature should be available across the MS Office product suite.

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[rafi qadri]

HI
I am right now working on Viso Activex Control in dot net . I am trying
to implement "Undo for Moving Object" .
I have used the following functions but its unable to Undo the action when
the object is moved . The undo functionality is only working on Adding ,
Deleteing an object but not on Moving object

VisioApp.Undo()
VisioApp.DoCmd(VisUICmds.visCmdEditUndo)
VisioApp.DoCmd(VisUICmds.visCmdEditUndoMultiple)
Regards

Rafi Qadri

SMVP

 

[Al Edlund]

have you checked tools => options => save => autorecover?
al

 

[Paul Herber]

Other MS Office products such as Word and Excel offer a feature to
automatically create a backup copy of a file when it is saved, thus
protecting critical information and providing the ability to recover the last
update. There are even unique file types for Word and Excel backups. However,
Visio does not offer this, even though the creation of diagrams may be time
consuming and critical to the enterprise.

If it's critical to the enterprise (or just plain critical to anybody)
then you shouldn't be relying on automatic backup copies to recover
the previous update.
Look at version control systems, plenty of them around, many of them
are free.

 

[Punctilious]

Yes, this works essentially like Word, which also provides automatic backups.
Besides, autorecover might help in the event of a crash, but NOT if you made
a change, saved it, and then thought better of it. We are talking about
separate files.

The PDP-11, for example, had the ideal auto-backup setup, using GDGs with
variable n generations saved, the most current being the default. That would
take care of everything. Best of all, it was largely transparent to the user.
IBM has had GDGs since the 60s. Unfortunately, MS never implemented such a
file system, or anything remotely like it. Cheap disk space would make this
more attactive.

 

[Punctilious]

Yes and no. You are correct in pointing to version control systems, but it
MUST be automatic because people don't always remember to do the right thing.
You have obliquely pointed out that these auto-backups are really only a
band-aid by MS to cover the fact that there IS no MS versioning file system.
(See response to Al Edlund.) If there are "plenty of them around, many of
them free", it should be a piece of cake for Microsoft to implement this as
an integral part of the file system. Actually, this should have been my
suggestion, not just for Visio. Thanks.