Extra Files that FrameMaker Creates
In general, you should name your FrameMaker documents with a
.doc extension. This will enable consultants to more readily
determine your document may have been created in FrameMaker,
and is what FrameMaker considers to be the normal extension.
If you list a directory in which you were working on a Frame document
you may see several other extensions to your filename. These are:
- .backup
- this is the equivalent of a ~ file that emacs or
ez might create. It is the last version of the file you
were working on, but not the most current.
- .recover
- If FrameMaker should die unexpectedly it will save the
document it has loaded up and append this extension. When you next
open this document it will tell you that it found a .recover
file and ask if that should be used instead.
- .lck
- Once a user opens a document, a .lck file is created to
prevent another user from opening and changing the file at the same
time.