# Hard drive died, Scrivener disappeared, and took my book with it

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**Category:** Scrivener\
**Tags:** os-related\
**Created:** [September 13, 2022, 3:30am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/hard-drive-died-scrivener-disappeared-and-took-my-book-with-it/129945 "2022-09-13T03:30:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![kewms](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/kewms/32/15720_2.png) [@kewms](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/kewms)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2022, 4:21pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/hard-drive-died-scrivener-disappeared-and-took-my-book-with-it/129945/8 "2022-09-13T16:21:46Z")

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This is an old post, but all the advice in it still applies:

> [@Got a backup?](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/got-a-backup/32512):
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> Every so often, someone will email our support queue because they have lost a significant amount of work to some disaster or another. Sometimes the disaster is Scrivener-related, sometimes it isn’t, but our first question is always the same. Do you have a backup? Sadly, depressingly often, the answer is no. And in those situations, sadly, there really isn’t much we can do to help. This post is a public service announcement inspired by one such situation. Scrivener’s automatic backups are a go…

I would just add that you shouldn’t trust your data to _any_ service until you understand what it is doing.

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