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Originally Posted by Hitch
Ain't that the truth--the bureaucrat, that is. My author just went through that very thing. She DID have courtesy/author copies of her files, but a computer drive crash nuked them. Think that the DBag in charge of those files now, would give her a new set? Noooooooo.
Hitch
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In other words, your author values her/his work so little that s/he didn't even have a backup???!!!
Seriously? I have my book files backed up to a standalone disk, a local server, and have a third copy in the cloud. And the local server is separately backed up to the cloud AND a local backup disk. Are you kidding?
This is my intellectual property, and there is NO F***ing way I'm not covering my posterior every which way but Sunday. I started writing books in 1990 or 1991, and I have every book file I've ever created. Now the fun part would be to come up with an application to READ those files these days. (First word processor was PCWrite, followed by Word Imperfect, and then when forced by circumstance and the publishers, Word.) The WP files could probably be read and mangled by Word, but recovery of the PCWrite files would be a good deal more annoying. The main files were ASCII text, but there were embedded control characters for some formatting features that would be a bit work to have to sort.