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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
I don't know details of your workflow, but I'd seriously look into version control software.
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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
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Actually, we have this, in two different ways.
All work that's done is saved to a specific Dropbox for that project, inside a larger Dropbox folder (for the bookmaker, while s/he is working on that project). The file that's completed is then uploaded to the specific project in Teamwork Projects (a PM system), which has automatic versioning.
So, a) we name the files sequentially--something really creative like, V1, V2, and so on in the Dropbox;and if we screw up and forget, b) Teamwork versions them.
HOWEVER, this was a lot less "set in cement" in 2011. Moreover, my archives were not very
procedurally organized back then. Hell, for that matter, I wasn't certain, at that time, that I needed to keep archives of the work, once done. I ultimately decided that we did; but that wasn't until the end of 2011 or the beginning of 2012. We'd kept them (in fact, I used to keep them in a Calibre Catalogue, for ease of finding), but not in any "religious" way.
And an unfinished book? Crap. That could be almost anywhere.
(Related: I'm looking at X1 desktop search, to try to eliminate bloody duplicate copies of files on my "system." We can end up with copies of large folders of, say, InDesign files, in the quoting DB (Dropbox), the been quoted (DB); the in-production DB. When some of the idiots with whom you are doing work can have 1GIG (yes, 1 gigabyte) INDD Folders for something like a 34-page kids' book, you can eat up space quickly if you don't have rigorous file-deletion hygiene. I'm upgrading my personal computer to 3TB RAIDS of immediate storage this weekend, not to mention the externals, and it's like...sheesh! Oh, and if I forget to be rigorous with my Hightail Downloads folder...a boatload of space can get gobbled like prime rib near a pack of Wolfhounds.)
@re: cables. Mother of God, don't get me started. I don't know which is worse--my living room or the office. Cables cables everywhere, and each one of these bloody things, so it seems, has its own connector. (Apple, Nook, Kindles, my Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga, some other Droid devices, other readers...
). Someday, some genius will design a magical "charge everything" doodah, and will make billions.
Hitch