Federico Bruni-5 wrote > in Linux it's myFile.ly~ (where the trailing ~ makes it invisible to the > file manager) > so a better name would be myFile-1.ly~ myFile-2.ly~ etc.
you're absolutely right -I must have been confused when I wrote the other way round my preferred variants are myFile.ly~.1 or myFile.ly.1~ this also seems easier to search such files with regex to delete them when all adaptations are done. Eluze -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/backup-files-from-convert-ly-are-overriden-tp151177p151198.html Sent from the Bugs mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond