Best Online Backup

I went to see a new client yesterday.  He’s a university lecturer and he’s currently on sabbatical leave whilst writing a book.  He’s recently purchased a new laptop – a small one that is light enough to carry around with him so he can work from home or take the computer with him if he’s out and about doing his research.

He’d done a pretty good job of setting up the new laptop, but had got confused about transferring his photos and music and transferring the emails and address book from his old computer, running Windows XP to his new laptop running Windows 7.

Somewhere along the line we also started creating the restore discs.  If you purchase a new laptop ALWAYS create the restore discs.  The days when computers came with a set of CDs with all the drivers on are long gone.  You have to create the restore

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The question a client rang and asked me a few minutes ago.  I have several clients who are authors and this gentleman is one of them.  He’s written for TV programs and now he’s writing a book.  In my experience authors are great at writing – but they rarely stop to wonder what would happen if their computer breaks or some other mishap occurs.

Today the question was asked because, by the sound of it, my client had accidentally hit Ctrl+A (highlighted all the document) and then immediately pressed Ctrl+S to save the document.  Once content on your document has been highlighted, pressing any key on the keyboard results in the highlighted text being deleted.  In this case that was all of it!  The result?  He’d save a blank document.  It’s contents had gone, so he panicked and turned off the computer.

If this happens to you.  DON’T PANIC.  If

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