How to backup your lens

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How to backup your lens

Recently, I came across a few posting on SquidU about people accidentally deleting their lens or due to some bug. To avoid future headache, once you have created your lens and are happy with the content, I recommend you take a few extra minutes to back it up on your computer hard drive. One you have this, you will be able to recover any mishap.

Here are the procedure to backup your lens 

  1. Edit your lens and click on the
    "export the lens" on the bottom of the right side screen.
    This will save the XML file that describe your lens. I recommend creating a folder such as \Squidoo_backup\
    and place the file there.
  2. Next, go to view your lens and from your browser, click on File on the menu bar. Next click on Save Page As... and make sure you choose the option to save Web Page Complete.
    Specify the same folder as before. This will save a HTML file of your lens and create a sub-folder containing all the objects on your lens (such as images and video and audio...)
  3. That's all there is to it. You have just created a full backup of your lens. From these files you will be able to recreate your lens in case you accidentally delete it.

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