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How Dropbox Saved My Bacon, Step-by-Step
Sat, May 9 2009 10:40
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When I write my weekly bulletin I start with the previous week's, plug in the new article, change the date and volume number, update the announcements and "save as" the new bulletin. Usually, the first thing I do is the "save as" in a new folder and new file name so that I don't save over the older bulletin. Today I forgot the "save as" part of the process and as I worked on the new bulletin I was saving it over the older one. I didn't even realize I had done it until I started to post it online.
"Oh, no," I thought, "I've erased last week's bulletin!" Then I remembered that I save my bulletin in Dropbox. "What a relief!" All I had to do was open up the web interface of my Dropbox and click "restore." Vwala, last week's bulletin back safe and sound in its folder.
Here's how I recovered my file:
Can you believe that something so cool is free!
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