SaveAndBackup Coda plugin

Your backup folder will look something like this.

This is a plugin for the Coda editor on OS X. The purpose of the plugin is to make sure you always have a backup of the files you edit.

Each time the plugin is executed a backup of the file being edited is saved in /<local-root-for-site>/coda_backups/2010-04-01/ or in /users/username/coda_backups/2010-04-01/ if you don’t have a local root set.

It’s like a local history for your files. If something goes bananas: just check your local backup folder.

Installation

Download the plugin (Zip, about 10 K) or visit the GitHub repository for the latest almost Coda 2-compatible version.
Unzip/Extract the files
Double click saveAndBackup.codaplugin
That’s it!

Usage

Select Plug-ins > Save and backup
..or use the keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Alt+Cmd+S

Now check your home folder. It should contain a folder called "coda_backups" with all your backups.

Use Cmd+S to run plugin

You can change the default keyboard shortcut by using the ”Keyboard Preference Pane” (in System Preferences). Go there, click the plus-sign and enter the following information:

Screenshot showing detail of Keyboard Preference Pane

After doing this you should be able to use Cmd+S to run this plugin, resulting in lots and lots of backups! 😉

Errors…

If you get an error similar to this:

No such file or directory at /Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Coda/Plug-ins/saveAndBackup.codaplugin/Contents/Resources/06C6E0F7-5954-493E-B0B5-49321D712980/local-backup line 63, <STDIN> line 73.

then open finder and go to your home directory and create a folder called ”coda_backups” there. Now try again and it should work.

Todo/Ideas

These are my thoughts. Contact me if you have an idea!

~~It would be nice to have this plugin mapped to the usual Save/Cmd+S but I don’t think this is possible yet. Hopefully in the future…~~
There will be a lot of files in the backup folder. Maybe a limit there…
~~A folder for each site would be nice too. Don’t think this is possible yet either.~~ Kinda working now!

History

November 20, 2009: Files are now saved to folders based on date. Thanks to Bobbie Stump for contributing code for this.; If a site has a local root set, files are saved to that folder.
September 24, 2009: Added note on how to get Cmd+S working as the keyboard shortcut. See above.
April 15, 2009: First version. Seems to work.

Kommentarer

17 svar till ”SaveAndBackup Coda plugin”

ben

juli 11, 2010

Hello – Thanks for dev this – I’ve been looking for this kind of thing!

But I keep running into this error:

No such file or directory at /Users/anachronistic/Library/Application Support/Coda/Plug-ins/saveAndBackup.codaplugin/Contents/Resources/06C6E0F7-5954-493E-B0B5-49321D788990/local-backup line 63, line 52.

anything I can do about this?

will your site email me if you respond?

all the best, ben

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1. Pär
  
  juli 11, 2010
  
  Can you check if your ”local root” is set correctly in Coda for that site? Some others have reported this and I think that was the problem for them.
  
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robert

augusti 29, 2010

Still get the same message as ben, can not set the local root, defaults to
”/Users” whenever I click to save the changes made in the Site preferences dialoque

Uninstalling Your plugin, sorry!

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1. Dario
  
  mars 6, 2011
  
  Just create a folder in your home directory called coda_backups that fixes the issue.
  
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MisterChibi

oktober 30, 2010

Awesome feature !
Thank you ! 😀

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Coda, les plugins indispensables | Edouard Labre | Blog

november 15, 2010

[…] Save and Backup, l’un des plus utile pour être sûr de ne perdre aucun fichier, en effet en reconfigurant les raccourcis clavier, il permet de faire par exemple un backup à chaque enregistrement de fichier. […]

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Grégoire Noyelle

januari 14, 2011

Hello Pär
Thanks a lot for your plugin. Great great tool
Best
Grégoire

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N

mars 6, 2011

I am having the same issues as the above posters…any idea?

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Clay

december 11, 2011

I am having problems with this plugin with the latest version of Coda (1.7.5) and Lion (10.7.2). It isn’t saving the file to the server when you use undo, don’t type anything and then save with your plugin. To replicate follow these steps…

1. Open a file via FTP.
2. Change the file and save.
3. View in your browser…the changes are on the server.
4. Undo (Cmd-Z) your change.
5. Save via the plugin.
6. View in your browser…the changes are NOT on the server.

I love this plugin and it has saved me more than a few times. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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Jan

januari 31, 2012

Hi,
I have also some problems to save. What is meaning with “home directory”?
Is it the directory of my website lacally or did you mean the user home?

BR

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Simon

maj 25, 2012

Hello Pär

Thanks a lot for your plugin. One of my favourite piece-of-mind tools.

Do you think you will update it for Code 2?

I will surely miss it if not.

Let me know where I can make a donation;)

Simon

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1. Pär
  
  maj 25, 2012
  
  @simon: yes, I have plans to make it work with Coda 2.
  
  If you want to donate you can do that here:
  http://eskapism.se/sida/donate/
  
  Thanks!
  
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  1. Big_Berny
    
    maj 30, 2012
    
    It would be great if we could change the backup-path. If possible in the GUI but also manually with a settings-file would be cool.
    
    I for example would like to save the backups in my Dropbox. Because like that all backups are really safe and could be restored – also if I delete the backup files by accident.
    
    Thanks for your work by the way. 🙂 I just donated something.
    
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    1. Pär Thernström
      
      juni 1, 2012
      
      Thanks for the suggestions! I’ll see what I can do about it 🙂
      
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tedr (@tedr)

mars 18, 2013

Great stuff. Thx!

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Anonym

maj 22, 2014

Don’t work anymore ?

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Nick Eagle

maj 28, 2018

Coda plugin is really helpful, Thank you for the installation process.

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