I've done both--kept a hard-copy and another copy on CD for backup. I started keeping hard copies after losing several short stories that were written on a tinker-toy wordprocessor and couldn't be translated by my newfangled windows '98 and Microsoft Works program. I also re-copied my thesis work--which I have not only on my hard-drive but on 3 1/4 floppies and hard copy, to a CD--just in case they one day do away with 3 1/4 floppies *and* my hard drive explodes (or I get a new computer.) Plus, I can only do fine-tune editing on hard copy. My eyes don't adjust well to computer screens (no matter what I do) and I often miss small edits. So, it's only a waste of ink and paper if you see it that way ;-) Tish --- Edbride-PR <Ed at edbride-pr.com> wrote: > ** Be a Good Dobee and help the group, you must > be counted to post . > ** Fill out the survey/skills inventory in the > member's area. > > > 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: > http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the > Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, > Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com