Projects
A lot of projects consist more than one file. Most consist many
files of different types (word processing docs., spreadsheets,
databases, media files, etc.).
Project files rarely exist in isolation. They refer and relate to
each other. You may have a Word document that relates to a
spreadsheet, or a web page with hyperlinks to various media files.
In these circumstances, referential integrity takes on
an unforeseen importance in your work. If you change one file, you'll
likely invalidate some other file; your work needs to be a
consistient set of files.
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Keep-It Together
The main task when working with a set of related files, is to
re-check all referenced files whenever you update anything. Keep-It
can help.
Put your project folder in an archive, and create a new snapshot before
you're about to update anything, and you know you have a
stable reference.
Should you ever need to go back to a previous revision of a document
or spreadsheet, you'll know the snapshot contains all the
files as they were when the revision was created.
It's a bit like copying everything, before you change anything;
good practice!
You can now go back any amount of time and know referential integrity
between your files is guaranteed.
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