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If you leave the edit session without saving the edited PD, the changes will be
discarded. This includes all changes to the HU caused by the editing session,
e.g., quotations deleted, copied, or moved by deleting, copying, or moving
text. If you do not save, the text will revert to the state before the last edit
session or when the document was last saved.
If you choose S
AVE
O
NLY
, all modifications are saved, a log file is created or an
existing one modified and you can continue to edit the document.
If you select the option D
ISCARD
C
HANGES
AND
L
EAVE
E
DIT
M
ODE
, then all changes
are discarded and no log file is created. If a log file already existed, no
additional information is added to it
If you choose D
ISCARD
C
HANGES
O
NLY
, the recent modifications are dropped and
the document is reverted to its last saved state.
Since there is no Undo function for document editing activities, make it a
habit to select S
AVE
O
NLY
once in a while during the edit session. Then you
can revert to the last saved status in case you made a mistake by selecting
D
ISCARD
C
HANGES
O
NLY
.
Please read - This happens when you save an edited primary
document:
Creation of Log files
As soon as you save your changes, an auxiliary file is created. This auxiliary file
has the same name as the original source file that was edited, plus the file
extension .log. It is stored within the same folder as the original file. If file
extensions are shown in the file manager, you see:
Original source file: Interview.rtf
Auxiliary log file: Interview.rtf.log
The default setting of your file manager is set to “hide commonly known file
extensions”. This is an unfortunate setting as it can be helpful in a lot of
contexts to be able to see the file extensions. You can easily change this setting
under the view options in your file manager. In the event that the file
extensions are hidden, you will see the following file names:
Original source file: Interview
Auxiliary log file: Interview.rtf
Only the “type” column indicates that the first one is indeed the rich text
document and the second one a text file. The characters “.rtf” are part of the
file name and do not indicate the file extension.
As they are just plain text, log files are very small, usually just a few k in size.
Log files contain information for the HU about how to adjust the codings
according to the modifications that have been made.
If you edit a document multiple times, the new modifications are written into
the same file. Thus for every edited document, you find one log file in your
project folder. Below you see an example of a log entry:
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