Backups, when do you save them?

  • Backups, when do you save them?

    Posted by Troy DeGroot on July 27, 2026 at 9:39 am

    Every few months I hear from a student who lost real time: a customized toolbar, a Tool Chest, a batch of hyperlinks they carefully built out, all gone because a profile got overwritten or a project file got rebuilt from scratch.

    It’s almost never a software problem. It’s that nobody built a habit of backing up the pieces that took the longest to set up in the first place.

    I always tell people in class: whatever took you more than twenty minutes to build, back it up somewhere outside that one document. Profiles, Tool Chests, custom links, all of it.

    What’s your system? Do you export on a schedule, keep a master file tucked away somewhere, or handle it a different way? Come learn alongside the rest of us, I want to steal some better habits.

    Troy DeGroot replied 1 hour, 52 minutes ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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