> oops - kiozen and Oliver Eichler are the same person?
> Looks like quite a small team, right?

Yes, it's Christian, Ivo, Helmut and me. And a few spontaneous commits.



>
> -----------
>
> I cannot follow your accusation of 
> "version management of documents the worst way possible".
>
> While I agree that there are better ways, numbering file names to me
> was always the quickest and transparent ways to do so.
>
> While I agree that it is some commonplace issue regarding backup, my
> intention was how to do backup with GIS projects using QMS. And I
> think, versioning of work is something some people should/might want. 
> I don't like to be dogmatic on persons work style.
>
> So what would you propose as an alternative?

If you want to do versioning use a revision control system. Renaming
files ends up in a hopeless mess. It does not document the changes. And
if you are lucky you overwrite your own work by accident. I know, many
users do it that way, but that doesn't qualify it as a good solution to
be recommended.

For document style content and single user a small Subversion server is
a fantastic tool. There are many tutorials and products to setup one
easily. But if you are really concerned about the safety of your data,
you have a small NAS drive for backup anyway. And these come with a SVN
server usually.

If privacy is of no concern use a cloud service that offers revision
control. e.g. Bitbucket.

>
> ------------
>
> regarding the "current.view" I found. It starts like this
> Does it belong to QMS?

yes. But it's not created automatically.
> verbage in device chapter - agree
>
> mounting issue - so it boils down to:
>
> QMapShack takes care of the mounting
> if the OS does automount as well, ignore this and avoid direct access
> on the file level
>
> Should we even advice people to blacklist automounting of garmin
> devices?
> I don't think so. It requires admin knowlege, and if you have them, you
> can easily discipline yourself to avoid direct file access.
I don't think that is necessary. There is no problem in accessing the
device with a file browser while QMapShack is running. In fact I do this
quite often when developing on that part.

Just keep in mind that the mount/unmount only works on Linux. On Windows
you have to eject the device. OS X???


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