Friendly Reminder: Back Up Your Stuff...

[Fishbowl Helmet]

I keep my notes on my phone. When something hits me when I'm out and about I just tap out a quick note with the idea, scene, bit of dialogue, whatever. Well, today my phone went tits up and I've lost quite a bit of stuff. Anything that I was actively working on I had a proper doc on my desktop and outlined, brainstormed, and wrote from there. But, a whole hell of a lot of my random story ideas and notes just vanished in a puff of digital smoke.

So here's a friendly reminder, back up your stuff. Ugh.

 

[mosaix]

Commiserations.

 

[thaddeus6th]

I sympathise, it's infuriating when that sort of thing happens.

 

[Gumboot]

Hate it when that happens. Although, wait until your desktop hard drive fails and you hadn't backed up in six months... then you'll know real sadness.

 

[Fishbowl Helmet]

Yeah, I've had the hard drive fail before. Only took once to learn that big lesson. I back up my desktop regularly and it's one of the many reason I switched to a Mac. Don't know why I didn't backup my phone docs though. Ugh. Never again! I hope.

 

[Stephen Palmer]

Mac here, too.

My work is backed up every time I use the Mac. Sometimes that's more than once per day.

It goes beyond "common sense" I think...

 

[Jake Reynolds]

I use Evernote on the phone, which backs up to the cloud, though I am aware that comes off a little nyah nyah, for which I apologise. I have lost huge chunks in the past too (100 pages here, 50 pages there), though they were probably so badly written I'm likely better off. I now work off a usb that I back up once a week on the hard drive, once a month to cd, and any 'live' wips also get sent to gmail each week.

 

[Brian G Turner]

Always a timely reminder, but unfortunately usually driven by unfortunate experience.

I haven't written down my phone notes for some time, so am doing now - cheers for the heads up.

 

[thaddeus6th]

Phone notes?

As in, info written on your smartphone?

I may sound like I'm a thousand years old, but apart from the computer and Kindle I do my writing with pen and paper. It seems to work well for thinking through comedy bits and pieces.

 

[chrispenycate]

And I've never had a notebook crash. Mind you, I use pencil and paper which can wear out if transported too often in a pocket.

 

[wulfsbane]

Most of my stuff's in the cloud. I use google docs. If you hate that, you can still keep word docs in the cloud with something like dropbox. So I guess the only way I'd lose my stuff is if my email is compromised or if google's servers are destroyed or something.