Thank you! Glad to be here. 

"Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean you're wrong." comes to mind 
when talking about losing data. ;) I totally agree - good tip.

On Monday, 22 March 2021 at 20:13:50 UTC-7 cj.v...@gmail.com wrote:

> G'day David, and welcome to TiddlerHood!
>
> Although you may never need them, there's is nothing wrong with having 
> just enough paranoia to create backups once in a while (at any moment you 
> think: "man, it would really suck if what I'm about to do would screw up X 
> hours worth of effort I've just put in).
>
> I have my regular moments of:  "hmmm, just when everything seems 
> foolproof, I am about to step up as the latest posterboy for fools are us." 
>
> Cheers !
>
> On Monday, March 22, 2021 at 12:25:58 PM UTC-3 David Archer wrote:
>
>> That's terrific, thanks, both of you. I'll be less afraid of breaking 
>> things now.
>>
>> On Monday, 22 March 2021 at 04:02:40 UTC-7 Mat wrote:
>>
>>> David Archer wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is my essential data (the tiddlers, their content and their links) 
>>>> still safe? I.e., is it transferrable to another TW file?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Data content and links are still safe and transferrable, yes. Plugins or 
>>> other *code *that is not part of the core, especially things that are 
>>> not developed by the core team, might depend on other code so it can be 
>>> that they don't function properly. But that is not your *data*. 
>>> Further, because this is just a html file, your data is actually possible 
>>> to read in plain text. It is surrounded by html, but it's there and it's 
>>> extractable. It is probably one of the safest solutions around in this 
>>> regard.
>>>
>>> <:-)
>>>
>>>
>>>

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