# does backup project to save everything?

**URL:** <https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/does-backup-project-to-save-everything/6649>\
**Category:** Scrivener for macOS\
**Tags:** support\
**Created:** [November 1, 2009, 8:46am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/does-backup-project-to-save-everything/6649 "2009-11-01T08:46:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Aisling13](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@Aisling13](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Aisling13)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2009, 8:46am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/does-backup-project-to-save-everything/6649/1 "2009-11-01T08:46:38Z")

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Hi

I copied two of my Scrivener projects onto a zip drive after creating the zip file from choosing backup project to. I just wanted to make sure that doing this saves everything written on that project thus far.

I so don’t want to lose everything, ever again.

Thank you

also why did my avatar disappear? I did not see it here, yesterday or today.

Aisling

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**Author:** ![AmberV](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/amberv/32/13021_2.png) [@AmberV](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/AmberV)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2009, 4:52pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/does-backup-project-to-save-everything/6649/2 "2009-11-01T16:52:07Z")

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Yes, it simply duplicates the entire project and then archives it to save space, which is why it is so much smaller.

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**Author:** ![Aisling13](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@Aisling13](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Aisling13)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2009, 12:51am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/does-backup-project-to-save-everything/6649/3 "2009-11-02T00:51:43Z")

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Thank you Amber