Story backup

Discussion in 'CHYOA General' started by TurinTurambar, Oct 29, 2015.

  1. TurinTurambar

    TurinTurambar Experienced

    Hey,

    is there maybe an easy way to backup an entire story or thread into textfiles? Doesn't even need to have any XML or stuff to save the structure, I would just like to have each chapter's text saved on my local drive just to be sure.

    I can of course go through every chapter and manually copy it, just figured I'd ask first whether there is a function for this!
     
  2. Friedman

    Friedman Administrator

    There is currently no option to do that. But an export feature for owners and editors is on my to do list.
     
  3. TurinTurambar

    TurinTurambar Experienced

    Awesome, thanks! (And no hurry, I know there's more important features :D)
     
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  4. Zingiber

    Zingiber Really Really Experienced

    I think the classic resort is to use a web spider from the story map with a depth of one.

    I don't have a specific recommendation but maybe someone has a favorite to suggest.

    Z.

     
  5. Simon_Silver

    Simon_Silver Guest

    I disagree, I think for the next update after the one that will in theory happen today this should be TOP priority!
     
  6. Stibium

    Stibium Guest

    Hey! This might be necro-posting, but... Is there any chance we'll ever be able to use this "export feature"? I would appreciate it very much.
     
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  7. gene.sis

    gene.sis CHYOA Guru

    As it refers to the exact topic of this thread, I'd say that's perfectly fine.

    In the meantime, we got a Suggestion forum that allows users to vote on features they would like to see most and as far as I remember, there isn't a thread for an export feature yet.
     
  8. wilparu

    wilparu Really Really Experienced CHYOA Backer

    That would be great. I write my stories in another platform then paste them here, but inevitably I go and make small edits and fixes on CHYOA over time but rarely modify the source files unless it’s a major change. Being able to get the best version easily would be helpful for my longer stories.