Amanda,

Are you running any type of CMS or version control software?

When you're saying that backup copies have disappeared, are you talking about automatically generated FM *.backup files?

Do you have timed saves turned ON?

Amanda, to add a little bit to Van's posting, FM9 definitely works differently than earlier versions when it's doing the Save  and/or Save As step, so it could be that you and your colleagues are experiencing a side-effect from that change.

In previous versions it used to drive me NUTS that we had to manually change the file extension when doing the save / save as (change the .mif to .fm or vice versa). In FM 9 that no longer is necessary, because changing the dropdown menu "Save as type" will automatically change the filename extension shown just above.

Could it be that when you are saving the document you type in the full name ("example.fm") but then you don't notice that the "Save as Type" is still showing the "Document 9.0 .fm" selection, or vice versa, and FM gets confused?

Or perhaps are you clicking on Save while you're editing (I'm in the camp that does Ctl-s reflexively, compulsively, and with almost pathological abandon while working, it would take considerable effort to retrain myself out of it). If so, maybe FM is actually saving your .mif as .fm and in the process "silently" changing the file type, so that when you finally do your last "save", it thinks the file is the opposite type?

Sheila

Hi,

I have FrameMaker 10 and my colleagues and I are experiencing a similar problem.  It happens very randomly, but when it happens it is when we update the book or when we try to print. Right now, we are getting around that issue by creating a copy of the entire FrameMaker file folder prior to updating/ generating.  It's a work-around so we would appreciate a more concrete solution.

Thanks!

Akari