Misc Questions: Previous Report recovery etc..

CR Xi
1) Is there an easy way to save a report and then later go back and retrieve it? That is, during development and testing I'd like to have a couple of versions of the report without proliferating the reports with different names etc. What are some 'best practises' here in report development and testing?
2) Copy/Paste of CR fields: I recently copy/pasted some fields from one CR to another. The underlying fields didn't come across but the copy/paste seemed to work fine. Is there a way to find out what's missing-in-action on copy/pastes from one report to another? Best practises?
3) What other best practises are there?
TIA

Do you have any source control software?
this is what you are looking for.
if you are doing this on a windows machine you may be able to create a directory
run a process that checks that directory and automatically saves version in the background .
copy and paste has big issues as these are not simple objects the trick to get this to work I have found is to open ( big) the sections so no area of the paste goes outside the edge then paste then move them after.
best practice is use source control software.

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Think this is a good, one... Here is the story:
Some apps will crash, that always happens, right? So I did not pay much attention to it until it was way too often. Learned about disk utility, repaired permissions on a regular basis and moved on. But then... One day disk utility told me there was something that could NOT be repaired. I ran and bought an External HD (usb.. not a good choice, but I found out that too late for an exchange). Backing up from there on was kind of a weekly thing.
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Ok... seemed like it liked it.. but after a little while, strange things happened again, and after the restart, the blinking folder with the question mark again...
So... no choice, have to replace my HD right? I get a brand new Seagate, 120 Gb, 5400 rpm. Followed instructions from ifixit.com and after 3 hours (and a lot of fun!) I replaced the hard drive on my beloved iBook. This was really fun!
Installed the software on the new HD.. everything looks fine... for a few minutes. I tried to use right away what I use everyday to see if it works: web browser, iTunes, Activity Monitor, played a dvd perhaps, etc... And..? Nop... started crashing again... Got the blinking question mark after restart, etc. But now.. the hardware tests reports me no problems.
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I was very glad to hear it was a cable that connects the HD to the Logic Board (that's what I understood.. I think). That this was only 20 dollars, but somehow, with the labor I ended up paying around 100 dlrs! I found out later that apple changes this cable everytime they upgrade a HD.
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yeah....
the problem is that I do not have a firewire external HD, and it will not boot from my usb external...
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