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Backup QuickPick for Bento

Filed Under Bento Basics 

In response to a comment in the Multiple Library Collections post I’m pleased to say that I’ve created a QuickPick for Apple’s Backup application which will backup any bentodb files you have in your user’s Library/Application Support/Bento folder as well as the Bento preferences file.

To use, simply download the QuickPick, unzip the file and then place the unzipped file into either the /Library/Application Support/Backup/QuickPicks/ folder or the ~/Library/Application Support/Backup/QuickPicks/ folder.

The file can be downloaded from here.

Comments

5 Responses to “Backup QuickPick for Bento”

  1. Bob Newman on October 19th, 2008 8:53 pm

    Thanks, Simon. I purchased Bento the first week it was available. I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge about this product and relational databases in general. I have been trying to build a Bento Database to track my Real Estate prospects. I was an old Apple Works user and when that was no longer compatible I was lost. There is still a lot of things I do not understand, but I read the Forum every day thinking someone else will have my problems and lack of understanding.

    Thanks again
    Robert Newman
    http://www.RobertLNewman.com

  2. Simon on October 19th, 2008 9:28 pm

    Hi Bob and thank you for your comments. Please post your question in the forums because I can guarantee that there will be other people struggling with exactly the same thing who either haven’t posted or will come across your posts in the future. Don’t worry about your questions being stupid … they won’t be and if you get an answer and they help you than that is more important than worrying about what someone else will think.

  3. macpug on October 30th, 2008 7:46 am

    Nice! Thanks so much for this. Got it downloaded on my iMac and MacBook. Excellent addition from the archaic way I’ve been doing it! :)

  4. victoria on September 15th, 2009 10:07 am

    hi simon.,

    so this will backup my bento.db files with ALL the media files??? using bento 1?

    Victoria

  5. Simon on September 15th, 2009 12:07 pm

    It will back up any media files that are embedded in the Bento database file. If you’ve linked to media files then you’d have to back those up separately.

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