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If you read article “Ouch!. . .That Hurt,” here are some additional suggestions that go hand-in-hand with the article.

     If you are a writer, or maybe you are in the process of writing your family history, or you just have important information on your computer that would be hard to recreate, then you would do well to adhere to the following advice.

After you have completed backup, take out the time to print out hard copies of any and all work you have saved. Store those copies in a file draw or cabinet. Do this each time you have made any completed revisions. In case of a disaster of computer crash, backup fails, or whatever, you will have a hard copy of your work and it will be easier to recreate. This is just one more step for a paranoid like me.

If you’re a writer, this means all your books, articles, short stories, everything writing related. You should already be in the habit of printing hard copies of your finished work and placing it in a file drawer or cabinet along with a record of the date of completion, submission date, rejection, acquisition, etc. This serves as a quick handy reference also.

Remember that a backup disc, external hard-drive, memory stick—make sure a second copy of your backup is stored off premises, at a your friend’s or relative’s house. Why?

I know of one writer in particular that had a total house disaster by fire and lost everything. Hopefully, a disaster, theft, or computer crash will never happen to you, but if it does, at least you will have a copy of your hard-drive. With very little effort, you will be able to reload all your valuable information on your new computer.

A little extra at no cost to you:

What better proof of what you had in your house, than to have a pictorial record of your contents on that stored disc. Then if you ever have a disaster, when you meet with your adjuster you can prove up your claim – there should be no questions asked.

Now go forth—backup and do hardcopies. J

Janice Olson

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