To each his/her own, but that seems like a tremendous waste of paper, ink, and time. Why not just save a reference copy on a removable medium like a floppy disk, and keep the working copy on the hard drive? Ed ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shel Horowitz" <shel at frugalfun.com> To: "A - Z International" <az at a-zinternational.com> Cc: <hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 9:02 AM Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] ways to retrieve replaced files? > > > > PS--when I write a book, I print out each chapter as it's done, and > print out the whle MS at various stages. Then OCR recovery is a > possibility. >