Writing a Senior (Honors) Thesis - Saving Your Work

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Saving Your Work

• Print
  • A decidedly low-tech yet effective way of ensuring your most recent version will not be lost in the event of a system failure.

• Press CTRL + S or Command + S
  • Get in the habit of saving your work using the keyboard after you finish a paragraph. Once you hit “Enter” or “Return”, use the keyboard controls to save your work. It will save your work and give you peace of mind.

• USB (Jump) Drive
  • Cheap and reliable as long as you do not fall in a pool, lake, or other small-to-large-sized body of water.

• E-Mail
  • Tedious but effective if your e-mail provider has a large storage size. This is especially useful if you work on a public computer.

• MyWebspace
  • With your @wisc.edu e-mail account, you also have a limited amount of free space on which you can save anything. Use that space to keep updated version of your thesis and your most essential documents. MyWebspace.wisc.edu

• Online backup
  • A number of free and for pay online storage systems have appeared in recent years, such as Dropbox or Carbonite.