What Happens When a Romance Writer Gets Locked Out of Google Docs

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I am so glad we don’t have to imagine you shirtless with your wife’s bodice ripped. :rofl: OMG

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That leaves me speechless. :joy:

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I almost didn’t read this thread. After reading the Wired article, the lesson here is to keep all your documents locally. Just the fact that Google looks at the contents of Docs would have me stay away. Unpublished works are just that.

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I agree. I keep most of my stuff in Dropbox for sync, but keep copies of all Dropbox files locally, backed up with Time Machine, CCC, and Backblaze. I view Dropbox as more reliable than iCloud, though I am aware that iCloud has improved in recent years. I have Dropbox on my Windows machine, with files kept locally there too, providing a pretty good backup for both computers. Also, I use Gmail which is backed up locally with Horcrux. I’ve tested Horcrux a few times, and it always has had the email for which I was looking. I’m hoping that Horcrux, in turn, is backed up by the other backup apps, but I haven’t tested that.

My iOS devices are backed up only to iCloud. I got too lazy to do manual backups to my Mac, except when I am transferring to a new device. But everything important on iOS is synced to my Mac, and backed up from there.

Probably no one is bulletproof, but I think that I am pretty close.

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A quick search shows there are several different horcuxes out there; at least three as a bash, a python, and a Go script.

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Horcrux
Also in the Mac App Store as “Horcrux Email Backup.” I got my copy off of the Internet, evidently not realizing at the time that it was available in the App Store. It is prone to memory leaks, so I periodically restart it from Activity Monitor. The Browse interface (where you go to fetch backed up emails) takes a little getting used to, but it works and has improved over time. Horcrux is actively supported, and the developer is open to suggestions.

I am interested in what other users think of it.