What are those files xxxxx_20140922-084346.ged?

In the directory where I have my genealogy main file (usually your_name.ged) I have lots of files as mygen_20140922-084346.ged (of course, "mygen" is an example as the digits you find after).
You have to know that Ancestris will create each time you save your work, a backup file named "aaaaaaaa" (aaaaaaa is the name your genealogy file ; if your file is named johnson, aaaaa will be "johnson") followed by many digits. Those figures represent: the year, the month, the day, the hour, minutes and seconds.
So if you have saved your genealogy on june 14, 2014 at 8:20:54pm, your file will be named:
johnson_20140614_202054.ged

Question: But why do I have plenty of those files?
Answer: Ancestris will create a backup file each time you save your work, and it will create as many backup files as you have configurate it in the Ancestris config menu.
In the config menu, "Main Menu", "Tools", "Preferences", "Files" tab, you have a parameter "Number of backups". If you choose "10", Ancestris will create and keep the last ten backup files. The newer erase the older.

Those backup files have no use for you except if you want to revert to a previous work. If you did a mistake while working on your genealogy, you will be happy to be able to go back in the past and take one of those backup files.
For example, this morning (june 14th, 2014) you did lots of work in your genealogy, but suddenly, you see you were wrong to enter all those persons. Close and exit Ancestris, go the directory where your .ged file is located, rename your .ged file that way eg. johnson.ged.backup_after_my_mistake, and copy one of your backup files, let's say the one dated yesterday, eg. johnson_20140613_185212.ged to johnson.ged, and voila.
Fire up Ancestris and you're ready to work again.


What a wonderful world ..... ;-)




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