Sometimes I want to look at a previous version of a current project - usually something that’s only a day or two old; and so in the Dorico back up directory.
(I have also ‘infinite’ copies of the back up directory stored somewhere off site).
Then I ‘guess’ the time and date of a version which precedes some important change - opening that file and checking my suspicions against reality.
But is this actually the best way looking at old work ?
Have I missed a trick ? Is there anything built into Dorico that would show me the changes I’ve made?
A revision system would be very cool. Then you wouldn’t save different versions as a new project but with a revision number. In a separate revision panel inside Dorico you could select an older revision right away or maybe just change a few measures to an older revision, so you can quickly take a look or have a listen to an alternative version for comparison.
On the other hand, I used to work in commercial software and I know how complex these sort of systems get - what sets off as something ‘quite simple’ can easily grow into a multi headed monster eating development time like there’s no tomorrow.
I’ll guess Daniel and his team have an enormous wish list it is
I frequently save files with a date-stamp appended, myFile260617.dorico, that is yymmdd. I find this allows me to keep track of former versions, and the file versions sort in date order.
I do this on occasion as well. One can also add comments at the beginning of the file describing changes. Then there is always the “old-fashioned” way of keeping a separate log file on paper, txt file, or spreadsheet!
Yes good idea. I save zips of things that way offsite.
Being on windows I use ‘xcopy’ to periodically update files from the Dorico and DoricoBackup world to somewhere offsite. The collection of ‘flags’ (/s /c /r /y /d) makes it only copy new files.
can easily grow into a multi headed monster 
eating development time like there’s no tomorrow.