[Hidden-tech] ways to retrieve replaced files?

[Garth Shaneyfelt]

At 02:26 PM 4/25/2006, Shel Horowitz wrote:
>   ** Be a Good Dobee and help the group, you must be counted to post .
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>
>
>At 10:32 AM -0400 4/25/06, Edbride-PR 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.
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>>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
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>I do that also--but having had the experience of accidentally wiping 
>out 9 chapters of a book ms (which I was able to recover by OCRing 
>the printout I had completed literally moments before) and at other 
>times the experience of saving a corrupted file over the good one on 
>my backup, I'm sure glad to have that system in place. I would much 
>rather print an unnecessary ream of paper than recreate 9 chapters 
>from scratch!
>
>But the main reason, for me, is I'm a much better editor (and 
>especially of my own work) on paper than on screen, so I need to 
>print it anyway.

In addition, if you are using draft mode (available in some printers) 
and largely recycled paper, the "waste" is pretty minimal (certainly 
compared to say newspapers which are designed to be read in a day, 
but are typically NOT mostly recycled paper).

-Garth