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.

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[kengr]

Oh yeah, you might try using a seperate backup program. The one I use (second copy) can do scheduled backups of a directory or files to another directory, and even keep several "generations" of backups (basically the backup copies have something added to indicate *which* backup they are). Haven't actually used that feature of it myself, but I recall it from the help and config files.

It also only copies files that have *changed* since the last backup, so if you only pointed it at your writing directories, it'd be pretty fast after the first run.

Not sure how many generations of a file it'll keep (I can look if you are interested, but you could do backups every 10 minutes if you wanted.

[chanter1944]

Ooooooh, says I! I'll need to look into this! Thank you!

[kengr]

http://www.secondcopy.com/

[chanter1944]

I now have a trial version of Second Copy on my laptop, though I have to tell you, it took sighted assistance to set up. Access issues with some of the graphics. It's working now, however, and thank you! :D

[kengr]

Sorry about the accessibility trouble, but at least setup is fairly straightforward. Also if you can get it setup the way you want before the trial period is over, it'll keep working even after that.

You only need to get the paid version to make changes after that

[chanter1944]

I've got it set up to copy files in folders I'm unlikely to ever change, so I should be entirely good. Thank you again! :D