If You Write It, Don't You Save It?

United States
November 20, 2015 10:31am CST
I noticed a lot of comments about people trying to retrieve their posts from the now-defunct Bubblews (no, I did not have the 'pleasure' of contributing *said facetiously*). If I write something I think worth saving, I back it up. I am not going to depend on an outside website to always 'store it' for my convenience. What do you do with your 'masterpieces'? Save them to your HD or the cloud? Or not? Take a chance and get caught with your pants down?
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@valmnz (17099)
• New Zealand
20 Nov 15
I save my proper writing. The things here and on other sites are mere ramblings of my mind which I probably wouldn't want to be reminded of, of no future value whatsoever.
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• United States
20 Nov 15
I agree with not wanting to be reminded of rambling or as I like to call it -- babbling.
@jaboUK (64361)
• United Kingdom
20 Nov 15
I always write my stuff in draft on my email, then transfer it. That way I have everything I've ever written.
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• United States
20 Nov 15
That's a good idea.
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@marguicha (215428)
• Chile
20 Nov 15
I don´t save what I write here, but I save other writings. As technology changes, I don´t know if saving in paper is still the best method
• United States
20 Nov 15
I am starting to save content on another writing site I use. I don't feel the need to do so here though.
@rebelann (111177)
• El Paso, Texas
20 Nov 15
Ummm, masterpieces?? I doubt I've written anything that good, but my pictures are pretty good and those I want to delete, with or without the post I put them on.
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• Preston, England
27 Nov 15
mine were saved on my previous computer's hard drive but that crashed so I lost them from there too
• United States
28 Nov 15
I always back up my computer to an external HD. I will not risk losing anything worth saving. There are many free programs and my Win 7 has a back-up program that I always run on a regular basis. You always hope your computer won't crash, but why risk it? If you back it up, you can restore everything in minutes.
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• United States
9 Dec 18
Depends on if it is something I want to save and if I do, I think the best place is the cloud. Even though the cloud can fail, I find that flahsdrives can be lost and computers crash. Another good place is in a folder in your email inbox.
@kaka135 (14916)
• Malaysia
3 Dec 15
I saved some of my posts in Bubblews, but not all. I didn't save when I first joined the site, so I just missed all my earlier writings. As I wrote about my daily life, so those posts serve as some good memories for me, but it's okay if I don't have them. I usually save my work in the cloud, as I do not dare to trust my hard disk anymore once my laptop broke down.
• United States
21 Nov 15
I've saved all my writing and since I kept all my articles I can repost them on HubPages, which I am doing with some revisions.
@slund2041 (3315)
• United States
26 Nov 15
I was one of the stupid one who did not take time to save it. I thought Bubblews would always be there.
@NeldaHoxie (1381)
• United States
21 Nov 15
None of my Bubblews posts were worth saving. I feel the same way about MyLot. They are basically little ditties about my day. I can't imagine storing these.
@just4him (306239)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
27 Nov 15
Most posts I write are trivial. The ones that are worth saving are on my hard drive, saved. I'm not worried about finding my 'lost' posts.
@paigea (35693)
• Canada
21 Nov 15
I would never depend on someone else to save my writing. But having said that things I decided not to save I have changed my mind about now. lol Even so, I don't want to save too much.
@shellyjaneo (1081)
• United Kingdom
21 Nov 15
I never used to save it I just though Bubblews we be around for ever, very naive I know. I will save everything now though x
@acelawrites (19273)
• Philippines
17 Aug 16
I did not save it on a backup because some of it were just like "trash" for me; but some are good. I have it in my recycle bin when I had my laptop fixed; now I can't retrieve it. It is better to always have a backup file.
@Bluedoll (16774)
• Canada
21 Nov 15
Backup is important but rating the pieces is a whole new ball game. I've even flogged my pc and did a low level format just to start over. Too many masterpieces I guess.
@meowanji (193)
• Philippines
20 Nov 15
I will write on MS word first and save it, then I'll post them here.
@Lucky15 (37346)
• Philippines
21 Nov 15
One of the things i regret didn't save mine