And your saying those files from april ended up in your live folder (not only in your backup as shown here)?
Yes - that is what this whole thread is about
I'm not aware Lazarus ever copies back any backuped files so I would also blame the virusscanner for this.
Or you have some software which automatically restores a restore point or something.
Absolutely not - the only software on my PC that is capbable of 'Restoring' at all is SyncBack and I've never invoked a [Resore] in ~15 years of using it - it certainly doesn't have an auto-restore feature.
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FOUND IT ! ! ! !
That comment prompted me to review the SyncBack Profile and was I surprised to see that the last backup of the Lazarus Directory was at 19.02 last night !!!
I can now see exactly how this came about
I've been opening this project from Drive W rather than Drive T and I've been working like that for some time - HOWEVER Drive W is where the
timed backup for the Lazarus directory is! Drive T is the real 'Live' drive and that is where the April files still are
OUCH !!
That's a lesson learned (I hope
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The fact that I often had the Drive W file open during the time that SyncBack wanted access to 'backup' the Drive T file meant that SyncBack failed, and when I then saved the project there was no problem and the next time I opened it it was still 'good'. Since I had closed Lazarus yesterday before SyncBack was scheduled to run, it was able to complete the backup normally thus overwriting the latest version
The files on Drive T are now the latest current version and I think I can safely remove all of the V1 etc. folders - in fact I can remove the whole project from Drive W, it will be backed up from Drive T at just after 7 this evening - maybe I'll get some sleep tonight as well ! - Sorry to have sent everyone on a wild goose chase - and thanks for your input.