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Warning: my editorial calendar app deleted 6 months of drafts last week
Last Tuesday I opened my trusty calendar tool to plan next month's posts and everything was gone. Not just the schedule, but the actual drafted content I had saved in the notes section. I had been using it for 3 years without a backup, figured the cloud sync was doing its job. Turns out a silent update rolled out that week broke the sync feature, and when the app crashed, it wiped the local cache. I lost around 40 partial articles, including a series I was building on seasonal topics for Q4. Support said the data was unrecoverable, and I had no export file because I never bothered to set one up. Has anyone else had a similar meltdown with a calendar or planning app, and what do you use now that actually backs up your drafts automatically?
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laura_wright17d ago
Read a blog post a while back where someone lost a whole year of content the same way, and the comments were full of people saying cloud sync is not the same as a backup. That stuck with me because everyone just trusts the little sync icon like it means something. Set up an actual export to a folder on your own drive, even if it feels like extra work.
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