Suggestions very much appreciated, grrrr!

[chanter1944]

Anybody got a suggestion on how to roll back changes to a wordpad document you accidentally deleted a chunk of? I thought not saving changes would sort things, but evidently that isn't the case. I am not. happy. :(

No, I don't have a damnable backup. That would make too much sense.

Edited to add: I've been able to retrieve the most important bits of what I lost, thanks to having sent them to friends. I'm in the process of recreating the rest.

I'm also on the hunt for a word processor application that has a better backup feature than wordpad, doesn't stink for accessibility (looking at you, Libre Office), and doesn't have Google tentacles in it.

Comments

[alexseanchai]

I am informed that Scrivener plays particularly poorly with screenreader software, which means I have possibly zero recommendations. Possibly one: I do not know enough about CryptPad to know whether it might meet your needs, but I do know it keeps being recced to me as the alternative to Google Docs for privacy-conscious people.

[chanter1944]

Hmmmm. I'll need to do some accessibility sniffing, but thank you for the rec. It looks intriguing, from the skim of the linked webpage I just did.

[stealthsystem]

Scrivener on Windows, I can't speak to, but Scrivener on Mac plays nicely. One of the few things that was designed for Windows but plays properly on a Mac

[alexseanchai]

I don't know which platform the person I was talking to uses. I do know Scrivener was not designed for Windows: the first Windows version was like four years after the first Mac version and I think it's only in the past couple years that the Windows version caught up to the Mac version in terms of features.

[chanter1944]

For the record, I'm a Windows gal.