WordPad

[Dearelliot]

I use wordpad for writing...and have everything there, stories in progress, ideas for stories, notes...and ask if anyone knows.
In the event of a total computer failure...and I need a new PC, can I recover my work from wordpad?

 

[SinclairGroupLLP]

Probably not. It’s just a barebones rtf word processor. I’d back up your stuff.

 

[onehitwanda]

wordpad is a local editor. Unless you're physically copying your work elsewhere, you will lose it.

 

[Dearelliot]

thank you

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Use a thumb or card drive for storage. Should show up as E:, F:, G: or higher.

Set WP to save all content there. External drives like that should not be affected by a computer failure and can easily be moved to another computer.

 

[Writer61]

I use wordpad for writing...and have everything there, stories in progress, ideas for stories, notes...and ask if anyone knows.
In the event of a total computer failure...and I need a new PC, can I recover my work from wordpad?

Please, please, please backup. Ideally twice with one in the cloud.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Backup. Emailing to a Gmail account, for example.

 

[SinclairGroupLLP]

Use a thumb or card drive for storage. Should show up as E:, F:, G: or higher.

Set WP to save all content there. External drives like that should not be affected by a computer failure and can easily be moved to another computer.

This is what I do.

 

[Nynah]

Wait, you mean you all don't just raw dog it and just edit your story directly in Literotica's Draft story interface?

(for legal reasons, this is a joke)

 

[alohadave]

Please, please, please backup. Ideally twice with one in the cloud.

3-2-1 method

3 backups, 2 different media, 1 offsite.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

I use wordpad for writing...and have everything there, stories in progress, ideas for stories, notes...and ask if anyone knows.
In the event of a total computer failure...and I need a new PC, can I recover my work from wordpad?

Text isn't super heavy data, so you better start putting everything someplace external. At least have a backup on your phone if you can.

 

[TheLobster]

Just to clarify something: this really has nothing to do with using specifically WordPad. You could use Notepad, LibreOffice Writer, MS Word (let's pretend Office cloud stuff doesn't exist for that one), Ghostwriter, Scrivener, or any other editor that saves your work to local files.

It's the fact that those files are stored locally on you computer matters. Your editor is just that -- an editor; you point it at a file and it opens it.

It is your story files (presumably you keep them all in a single folder?) that you have copy somewhere else than your one computer. Cloud storage options like Google Drive, Dropbox, Proton Drive are probably the easiest, since they can be set up to upload the files automatically whenever they change, even as you write.

 

[Dearelliot]

Thanks..I use icloud but wonder if when I use wordpad and hit save does it go to I cloud?

 

[Writer61]

Thanks..I use icloud but wonder if when I use wordpad and hit save does it go to I cloud?

In Finder, open iCloud Drive (should be visible on the left side of the screen) and search through the folders for any of the files you created in Wordpad.

If they are there = fine.

If not, see if you can change the default directory that Wordpad uses.

If that is not possible, set up automatic file copying from your local drive to iCloud. I use Hazel for this kind of thing, but there are many other options.

Don't forget to copy all of your existing Wordpad files to iCloud.

 

[Dearelliot]

thanks

 

[Bramblethorn]

Wait, you mean you all don't just raw dog it and just edit your story directly in Literotica's Draft story interface?

(for legal reasons, this is a joke)

It blows my mind that people do this for real.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

It blows my mind that people do this for real.

It blows my mind that some people write full length novellas on their phones. I can't even write a one line forum post without messing it up.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

It blows my mind that some people write full length novellas on their phones. I can't even write a one line forum post without messing it up.

Umm... Yeah... It also blows my mind those who write novels on a smartphone... No, no, I am definitely not doing that, the signature is a lie, of course... whistles.

 

[Carnevil9]

Of course I agree with backing up as much as possible. But... it is simply not true that a computer failure means your local copies are lost.

If your computer has failed for any other reason than a hard-disk failure, you can always take the disk drive out of the computer and hook it up as an external drive on some other computer. A simple connecting device is all you need. I have done this many times, and saved many friends' asses.

 

[Writer61]

Of course I agree with backing up as much as possible. But... it is simply not true that a computer failure means your local copies are lost.

If you computer has failed for any other reason than a hard-disk failure, you can always take the disk drive out of the computer and hook it up as an external drive on some other computer. A simple connecting device is all you need. I have done this many times, and saved many friends' asses.

True, but not a strategy to rely on.

 

[sinfantasy]

You can try google drive or onedrive to backup your documents. They also keep version info. Best part, you don't need to back up anything manually. It will sync changes as you progress.

Another good thing, you can edit your documents from anywhere. It removed the dependency on single device.

 

[Britva415]

Any time I see someone whipo isn’t using, or at least considering, backups and a variety of ways to perform and recover them, it makes me think they must not have been using computers for more than a couple of years.

Most of us learned by getting burned.

 

[alohadave]

Most of us learned by getting burned.

There are two types of people: Those who have lost data, and those who will.

 

[iwatchus]

There are two types of people: Those who have lost data, and those who will.

These aer not completely distinct sets. Some people are just stupid.

 

[TheLobster]

There are two types of people: Those who have lost data, and those who will.

Since we're talking about computers, I feel obliged to remark there are actually 10 types of people.

Those who understand binary and those who don't.