Safe Options

General

There are three check boxes in the "Save" region:

• Create backup file before saving
• Auto safe every (chosen) minutes
• Auto Save before calculation

These options affect the creation of additional backup files.

If you want to store intermediate steps of your model editing process, use the "save copy as" entry from the file menu. You can use these files as a fall back.

 

 

Create backup file

If the check box "Create backup file" is activated, backup files are created, whenever you save your document. They are created as a copy of the existing ".ebs" file of your document, before it will be overwritten. A backup file is named as "document name".ebs.bak.

A backup file holds the previous version of the document’s data.

If your document is named "model_07", the backup file will be named as "model_07.ebs.bak" . Rename these models to "*.ebs"-files to be able to open them again by EBSILON^®Professional.

Auto safe backup

If you want to store a version, which is not older than a specific amount of time, activate the "Auto safe" checkbox and enter the times in minutes. This will save all the currently opened and modified models every n minutes.

Auto safe files are not created as a copy of an existing ".ebs" file, but they reflect the state of your document at the time of Auto safe. They are named as "<randomGUID>.document name".ebs in the directory <LocalAppData> .  An example: C:\Users\k9958069\AppData\Local\82BACDC228324c2286E61017E825D539.Modell1.ebs

Use this feature, if your PC is known to crash from time to time. Because EBSILON^®Professional normally does not store any document data in the .ebs file until you close or save the document, your editing data will be lost in case of a system crash.

Safe before calculation

If you activate the "Auto safe before calculation" check box, a copy of the model is saved with the name "document name".auto.ebs each time you start a simulation or a validation.

Use this feature, if your PC is known to crash from time to time. Because EBSILON^®Professional normally does not store any document data in the .ebs file until you close or save the document, your editing data will be lost in case of a system crash.

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Compression (default)

 

Choice box "Compression method"

• Bzip2
• Deflate
• None

Choice box  "Compression level"

0: no compression
1: best speed
2:
3:
4:
5:
6: default
7:
8:
9: best compression