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Originally Posted by Hitch
I do NOT remember how far we got on this in 2011. (And I can't find the bits and orts to reconstruct the history of whether or not we did the first leg of conversion, and THEN she disappeared, or if she disappeared from the get-go, damn.)
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I don't know details of your workflow, but I'd seriously look into version control software.
A VCS is a form of database. When you create a project, you check it into the VCS. When you do more work on the project you check it out, and check it back in when done, with a comment indicating what was changed. The VCS stores what is
different between the versions. It's possible to recreate the project at any point by starting with the original commit and applying changes up to the desired point.
VCS's were developed by programmers to provide better control over software development, but have broader applicability. I had one a while back that could do version control on Word documents and Excel spreadsheets back when they were still in a proprietary binary format instead of the current XML variant.
Use of a VCS would make the problem you described above easier, in that you would have a record of the steps taken and when they were done.
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Dennis