The Microsoft article
Naming Files, Paths, and Namespaces explains relative paths as managed by Windows file systems.
A file/folder name starting with
.\ or directly with a file/folder name is relative to
current directory of the running process. For that reason a backup directory specification with
backups,
backups\ or
.\backups results in creating the backup files in a subdirectory
backups in current directory of UltraEdit.
What is the
current directory for running UltraEdit instance can be seen for example on running from within UltraEdit the
DOS Command (not good name as in real a Windows CMD command can be executed only nowadays) dir with leaving
Working directory empty in
Dos Command dialog window. UltraEdit creates the directory tree to backup directory automatically if necessary.
However, the backup concept you want with saving a file in a subfolder
backups of current folder of saved file can be achieved with following settings at
Advanced - Settings or Configuration - File handling - Backup:
- No backup is selected for Backup files on save.
- Default backup directory is empty because of not used at all.
- Version backup is enabled by checking On save and using for Format the string backups\$n$e.bak and 1 is set for Maximum number of backups.
A file to save is copied first with these backup settings with
.bak appended to file name into subfolder
backups of the folder containing the file created automatically by UltraEdit if not already existing and then the modified file is saved in its folder.
UltraEdit saves version backups as well as normal backups by default in folder of file to save while the
Default backup directory is interpreted as absolute folder path and in case of being a relative path because of user has entered a relative folder path, UltraEdit left it over the operating system respectively the file system where the backup folder is located.
