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Save my work

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There are several ways to save your work. You should save your work periodically to ensure that you can retrieve it if your computer crashes, or if some other unforeseen event shuts down VisualAge.

Saving work done in a Composition Editor

To save work done in a Composition Editor, select Save Part from the File menu.

Saving your development image

To save work to your IMAGE file, which holds your development environment and all parts that you add to it, select Save Image from the File menu of a VisualAge editor or browser. (Or, when exiting VisualAge, confirm that you want the image saved.)

Saving the image enables you to restart VisualAge and get a development environment that is the same as when you last saved the image.

If you don't save your image and exit VisualAge, when you restart VisualAge, any work that you did after the last image-save won't be in the development environment. To restore work that you did after the last image-save, you'll have to load it from the library.

The IBM Smalltalk User's Guide describes what's in an image and explains how to restore your work.


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