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.