on Just Publishing Advice:
How to use a file manager to protect your precious manuscript
Don’t trust technology!
If you are writing a book, you should never use one working copy of your manuscript file. Computer files can suffer from all sorts of problems such as file corruption, accidental deletions or worse, viruses.
Many writers start writing a book using Microsoft Word or a similar word processor.
Every day they add more text to the manuscript and think that by regularly hitting ‘Save‘ everything is safe.
Wrong.
Very wrong.
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Reblogged this on Claire Plaisted – Indie Author and commented:
Like many writers before me I have lost work when my laptop crashed twice..within six weeks…It was bad. However I did get part files back…Of which i need to re-write
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A really good advice! In the past i often had two or more times to restore parts of my other work, because i trusted to much in my harddisk, the cloud, USB-Sticks. 😉 Michael
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The more places and methods used to store work, the better, Michael
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Thats right Chris! But sometimes – i had such a problem – a virus kills all stored files. ;-( Really important things i always send to print on paper. A later OCR-scan is better than nothing. 😉 Have a good weekend. Michael
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Same to you, Michael 😃
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:-))
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