Backing Up Your Fat Activist Network Information
June 26th, 2010
Ok, so you want to back up your stuff so that you can use when the site migrates? Excellent. I am sure there are more technical ways to create and/or recreate your page, however, as I am trying to help the masses, and the time to devote to writing the code is at this time unavailable to me here is what I recommend. (These are instructions for Windows based computers).
Pictures – If you have them saved on your computer already, then you already have it backed up, you will simply need to upload it on the new site when it is available. If, however, you do not have it saved on your computer, simply go to your page, go to your photos, and open up the picture by clicking on it (this is so it can open up to its largest state). Once the picture is opened, right click on the photo and choose “Save As” and choose the location on your computer that you wish to save it on.
Videos – I believe all the videos are actually links from sites such as YouTube. So, luckily, all you will have to do is save the link. You can do this by “adding to favorites on your internet browser or open a document such as Microsoft Word or Notepad and copying the link and pasting it into the blank document and then save it to your computer. When the new site is up, you can add the link on your new page.
Text – For those of you who wish to save the text of something you wrote, what you will need to do is to highlight the text and right click and choose “Copy”. Once it is copied, open up a program such as Microsoft Word or Notepad and then right click on the blank document and choose “Paste”. Then save the document to your computer. Once the new site is up, you can copy from the document and paste into the new site.



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