Comments on: Don’t Just Store It, Move It http://themoderatevoice.com/25035/dont-just-store-it-move-it/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Wed, 30 May 2012 18:42:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: archangel http://themoderatevoice.com/25035/dont-just-store-it-move-it/comment-page-1/#comment-167731 archangel Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:19:13 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/25035/dont-just-store-it-move-it/#comment-167731 thanks Joe and thanks GreenDreams; those are important reminders for people esp who have 'irreplacable' files of deathless prose, pix from times past, recordings that can never occur again. I dont want to say how I keep my elderly files open... becuase hardly anyone would believe me... the room looks like a cross between dr. frankenstein's laboratory and a rube goldberg bad day. But, like GreenDreams, my first computer was made from dinosaur bones. Others I've kept are very paleolithic.<br><br>dr.e thanks Joe and thanks GreenDreams; those are important reminders for people esp who have 'irreplacable' files of deathless prose, pix from times past, recordings that can never occur again. I dont want to say how I keep my elderly files open… becuase hardly anyone would believe me… the room looks like a cross between dr. frankenstein's laboratory and a rube goldberg bad day. But, like GreenDreams, my first computer was made from dinosaur bones. Others I've kept are very paleolithic.

dr.e

]]> By: GreenDreams http://themoderatevoice.com/25035/dont-just-store-it-move-it/comment-page-1/#comment-167264 GreenDreams Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:21:37 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/25035/dont-just-store-it-move-it/#comment-167264 Formats die. That has been a big problem for me and I encourage all of you to consider the format as well as the medium. I've been using computers since dinosaurs roamed the earth and it takes real effort to keep archives. For instance, current MS Word doesn't read files made by the earliest versions, let alone WordPerfect or XYwrite. If you value any digital text, be sure to keep it current. For Word users, that means opening and saving every old Word file with your current version before the old files become unreadable. <br><br>Better yet, save a copy of everything in RTF (rich text format), which has endured through decades of changes in other formats. Some of my earliest articles I can open only because for a long time PC and Mac didn't share well. Both could read a RTF file, so we used these for emailing articles around the country and around the world. Formats die. That has been a big problem for me and I encourage all of you to consider the format as well as the medium. I've been using computers since dinosaurs roamed the earth and it takes real effort to keep archives. For instance, current MS Word doesn't read files made by the earliest versions, let alone WordPerfect or XYwrite. If you value any digital text, be sure to keep it current. For Word users, that means opening and saving every old Word file with your current version before the old files become unreadable.

Better yet, save a copy of everything in RTF (rich text format), which has endured through decades of changes in other formats. Some of my earliest articles I can open only because for a long time PC and Mac didn't share well. Both could read a RTF file, so we used these for emailing articles around the country and around the world.

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