http://www.scripped.com/ - Looks like they lost everything! This is why I really want to buy Final Draft soon. Celtx is now cloud-based and this worries me!
Screenwriting : Bad news for writers who stored their work on Scripped.com by Kamala Lane
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Ouch!
Wow. Never heard of scripped, but... holy moley. Good lesson there in be careful who you trust!
I have desktop and iPad, sync to Dropbox so that I'm always working on current version of a script. Backup for me is hardrive and Dropbox.
Holy Hell.
John, fortunately I am not a Scripped user. I do save my Celtx work on USB drives and I email my works in progress to myself. I sure hope Scripped users had back-up. Another issue I worry about is sites like that getting hacked.
Fascinated by this like a train wreck. Here are some more details: http://www.bdcwire.com/scripped-shuts-down/
Looks like the service was owned by ScreenCraft. Once again they're getting the 3rd degree on Twitter by Franklin Leonard and Craig Mazin. Drama!
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So much for the belief that something that lives on the internet lives forever. Seriously though: people write and then save to a cloud - not to a C drive, USB or even print drafts to work through them on paper? And there's me who likes to save every draft as a pdf just in case my FD or computer dies, so that I can still see the text regardless of what may transpire.
Yeah, feel a combination of deep sympathy for anyone who lost work, and surprise that they could find theirself in that position.
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If you are using Celtx (as I do) buy the script app for your phone or tablet. You can sync between them. Means you can write anywhere and it is a local backup.
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Movie Magic is an excellent tool, worth considering