I keep losing stories!
You know what? I've spent a lot of time working on long novel-length stories. Some of these have been drafts for so long that they outlive my laptops. My laptops get used daily for uni work and personal stuff, and carted around each day so they get pretty hammered. I save back-ups on hard-drives and on cloud services.
Problem is that I've been using a couple of really good dedicated-writing programs (used to be YWriter but now is Scrievner). These don't save stories in a single file, they save them in a project (a series of folders which includes formatting, attached research, planning and story notes). Every time I have re-loaded my new laptop with the old software and tried to open the saved projects, the software keeps telling me that the project no longer exists. BUT ALL THE FOLDERS ARE THERE. There has got to be a way to tell the program that the folders exist but so far I can't find it.
This has happened to a Lie-to-Me/Supernatural crossover, a Star Wars epic, a Batman/Resident Evil cross-over and now my original novel. And I'm grumpy :(
Problem is that I've been using a couple of really good dedicated-writing programs (used to be YWriter but now is Scrievner). These don't save stories in a single file, they save them in a project (a series of folders which includes formatting, attached research, planning and story notes). Every time I have re-loaded my new laptop with the old software and tried to open the saved projects, the software keeps telling me that the project no longer exists. BUT ALL THE FOLDERS ARE THERE. There has got to be a way to tell the program that the folders exist but so far I can't find it.
This has happened to a Lie-to-Me/Supernatural crossover, a Star Wars epic, a Batman/Resident Evil cross-over and now my original novel. And I'm grumpy :(