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IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE FIRES ARE REAL DO NOT BOTHER TO CONTINUE READING
Have you ever accidentally a draft? I know people who have. 30000 words, gone in a flash, unless ofc youre writing to an SSD without trim or an HDD and are familiar with recovery tools. If you are though, you probably don't need this guide.
Do you want to not accidentally your drafts anymore? Worry no further, I will now show you my personal processes for data redundancy and storage using google drives free cloud sync of up to 15 GB(more than enough for all the writing you will ever do). Due to google drive syncing an entire folder on windows, you can use this with any word processing software. You will need a google email though, I suggest creating a dedicated email exclusively for your writing uses with a name and password unrelated to your other accounts.
Personally, I use a paid version of Scrivener to draft. The features I love most in it are its organization abilities and its clean, sexy PDF and EPUB export features. Ofc, I don't recommend buying anything without trying it out first. Not everything will be for you.
Here's what you'll need to do to download google sync services:
Head to this website: https://www.google.com/intl/en/drive/download/
Over on the left, you should see an option for backup and sync for individuals. Very cool. Click download!
From there, click download, install, next, etc, about seven times.
Now we want to configure google drives preferences.
If you already have google drive installed, follow these steps:
1. Click the down arrow on your windows taskbar ((sorry mac users)(Yes my task bar is on the top of my screen. What are you going to do about it?))
2. Click the google backup and sync icon in your panel
3. Click the three dots in the top right corner of the menu that pops up. A context menu will appear. Click preferences.
From here we're going to
1. Click choose folder
2. Click on the folder we want to choose. You can take your time to navigate to it inside of your pc.
3. Click select folder
This is advantageous for a bunch of reasons. If you don't use google docs as a word processor (which does, btw, have an offline mode) this will let you backup and sync your google docs across multiple devices. For example, I like to go camping, and write on my laptop under some bitching trees, enjoying the smell of natural air, my eyes burning from exposure to allergies. Really enhances the general experience.
This also works for scrivener projects, although for your first load you will have to open the project manually, and one scrivener license is only good for 2 pcs.
Have you ever accidentally a draft? I know people who have. 30000 words, gone in a flash, unless ofc youre writing to an SSD without trim or an HDD and are familiar with recovery tools. If you are though, you probably don't need this guide.
Do you want to not accidentally your drafts anymore? Worry no further, I will now show you my personal processes for data redundancy and storage using google drives free cloud sync of up to 15 GB(more than enough for all the writing you will ever do). Due to google drive syncing an entire folder on windows, you can use this with any word processing software. You will need a google email though, I suggest creating a dedicated email exclusively for your writing uses with a name and password unrelated to your other accounts.
Personally, I use a paid version of Scrivener to draft. The features I love most in it are its organization abilities and its clean, sexy PDF and EPUB export features. Ofc, I don't recommend buying anything without trying it out first. Not everything will be for you.
Here's what you'll need to do to download google sync services:
Head to this website: https://www.google.com/intl/en/drive/download/
Over on the left, you should see an option for backup and sync for individuals. Very cool. Click download!
From there, click download, install, next, etc, about seven times.
Now we want to configure google drives preferences.
If you already have google drive installed, follow these steps:
1. Click the down arrow on your windows taskbar ((sorry mac users)(Yes my task bar is on the top of my screen. What are you going to do about it?))
2. Click the google backup and sync icon in your panel
3. Click the three dots in the top right corner of the menu that pops up. A context menu will appear. Click preferences.
From here we're going to
1. Click choose folder
2. Click on the folder we want to choose. You can take your time to navigate to it inside of your pc.
3. Click select folder
This is advantageous for a bunch of reasons. If you don't use google docs as a word processor (which does, btw, have an offline mode) this will let you backup and sync your google docs across multiple devices. For example, I like to go camping, and write on my laptop under some bitching trees, enjoying the smell of natural air, my eyes burning from exposure to allergies. Really enhances the general experience.
This also works for scrivener projects, although for your first load you will have to open the project manually, and one scrivener license is only good for 2 pcs.
