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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
- 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. - 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...) - 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.
Some related links...
- Lensmaster ranking
- It is a good idea to know your ranking...
- My index of lens
- It is a good idea to create an index of your lens especially if you have as many as I do.
- My suggestion for lens design
- A good starting point.
- My squidbook on my experience with Squidoo...
- Work in progress...
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Reader Feedback
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triathlontraining
Great point about backing it up as HTML too! What about recovering the backup though? Posted July 24, 2008 |
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Joan4
Oh my! Today is the day I back up everything! Thank you! I had forgotten to do that! Posted July 01, 2008 |
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wizkid
This is what I call short and sweet. It's been a while since I backed up my lenses in the XML format and it never occured to me to back them up in HTML as well. Thanks! Posted June 28, 2008 |
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enslavedbyfaeries
Thanks for the great info and another thing to add to my to-do-list! Posted June 27, 2008 |
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Karl_Steinmann
Ah crap. Back up my files, back up my backups... now backup my lenses. When, oh when, does it stop?!?!? Posted May 19, 2008 |
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