A reminder. - back your work up!

[GrendelsMum]

You know it all already, but here's a reminder to back all your work up regularly. My laptop conked out on Saturday morning, and though DH has got it partially running again, I could have lost a lot of working files....

Use Dropbox! I save everything to laptop and Dropbox straight away as I go. Also means you can access your work from any pc, or from my iPad if I just want to read it.

Yes.
One of the reasons I switched to Scrivener was because working in Word I had so many different files that a few were slipping through the net and I didn't back them all up. My actual chapters were saved but not all my research notes and thoughts. Then when my computer crashed I had to go hunting around to find the computer's backup versions of my notes files - luckily they were there but OMG the panic.
I installed Dropbox after that and had one incident where I was very glad I had.

Glad you managed to recover it, GrendelsMum.

Yes, I'm now trying to get Scrivener to auto-save into Dropbox for the ultimate in constant backups!