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Status Update

(Translation published on 2019-09-30)

The remastering in progress of graphic bundle 4/10 has been delayed by the necessity to prepare the upcoming transfer of all my contents to a new macOS-enabled production environment, which implies a conceptual optimization of the storage space occupied by the project file folders of the many websites I have created since 2013:

  • Time Machine-sustained restoration of intermediary project file versions (1);
  • Local publishing (i.e. site export) of each website version to a separate project folder, for further reuse in browser preview mode (2), without using RapidWeaver;
  • Compression-based archival of each exported website into a (previewable [3]) .zip file;
  • Reconstruction of the underlying version history (changelog [4]).
Those are the successive steps of a conceptual problem-solving process whose native (macOS-based) and third party (provider-based) margins of improvement remain considerable…

Daniela BERNDT
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Further reading
  1. See Apple’s support page on how to "Restore items backed up with Time Machine on Mac" ().
  2. See the § about "Local Publishing" on page 8/84 of the RapidWeaver 7 user guide ().
  3. See the search results for the query ".zip" on the Mac App Store ().
  4. See the Wikipedia page pertaining to change-logging issues ().