Sorry, couldn't find a place already there to post this. With the new update from Microsoft, I lost all of my favorites. Three years of gleaning recipes and ideas for SHTF gone in a moment. Learn from this, back it up..if it's worth saving in the first place, BACK IT UP! Just saying...I had tons of old timey recipes, how-tos and so forth saved. Gone.....just plain gone. Please learn from my mistakes, the interweb isn't going to always be there, just because you have saved it doesn't make it sacrosanct. Back it up, write it down, screenshots, whatever. Be aware, they will and can take it all away. Take that extra 5 mins., write it down, you have it forever. Just saying....
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I have know to many people that lost everything on there computer from not backing up. I learned from their lessons, and some tech guy I know.. I do not use the cloud at all. I use a WD My Passport Ultra.. 4 or 5 TB I do not remember. You can set it for what u want or can have it back up once a week automatically, or once every hour in the background if you like.
Very inexpensive for what you get.. and U have the drive it is not somplace else you do not have to leave it hooked up. I back up once a week. So I keep it in a fireproof safe.. Just Saying Lots of brands out there like this.. Good Luck, sorry for you misfortune..
I try to. Thank you for this heads up and sorry for your loss.
Oh My, I am sorry to hear that! Once I had a roommate who threw away my Recipe binder full of hand written recipes from my grandma and my friends. She was jealous because she didn’t like to cook and I made it look easy. Wish I could make it better. Hugs to you!
If you are using Windows 10 there is a nifty feature called "file versioning" that will automatically back up your whole system to an external hard drive, or even network attached storage. You would want to connect your external hard drive first, and then go to - Settings - Update & Security - Backup - Under Backup Using File History you would select "add a drive" and select the external drive.
You can further set the frequency of file change backups and the length of time to keep them by clicking "More Options" and on the next screen select "See advanced settings" on the left bar. Then you can Select the Drive, Select folders to Exclude, or go in to Advanced Settings. Advanced Settings lets you select the frequency of version backup, and the length of time to keep those versions.
Basically; as the system changes it will keep versions of those files at the specified times you have it set to back up. As those versions hit the length of time to keep file versions they will be automatically removed. Bear in mind that "Keep Forever" will keep those versions forever and will eventually fill the drive unless you have it set to do so until space is needed.