In case SW might close in the future, what can I do about my articles I wish to save?

I have written something like 3,227 articles here and I found out that I can't get them all in one bundle and save them from here. They said that they don't have a way to do that here and that really bothers me, because I want them all and I worked so hard on them. I don't know how to get them all into one file. It seems like when I transferred my posts over from EP, I was looking at them and it seemed like the whole article was not there, so that really concerns me and so I asked the staff if I could have all my articles that I wrote here, sent to me and they said they can't do that, but also my EP articles were sent in a zip file and I don't know how to unzip them. I don't understand that technical stuff, but somehow I was able to click on a post I had written and got to read it, but it just didn't seem the same. I just want them sent to me an easy to open format, like esch article would be in pdf form and also have it so that if I wanted to copy my articles, I could also do that from the pdf document , but it looks like I'm going to lose all my articles and that really bothers me, cuz I wanted to make a book of them for myself, so I could hand them down to my daughters and grandchildren. I wish I had a solution. I just can't copy them all one by one, that would take forever. I've always been good with doing everything else on the computer it seems, but I don't like these deals where you have to unzip things and make it more complicated. And then it seems like if they send it to me in a zip file, I have a time trying to get it to open and all that stuff and I just hate it. There has to be a better way.

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Penny · 46-50, F

well, if they arent worth your time to copy and paste then are they worth the time to read?
eta- not trying to be mean, just trying to give you something to think on and perhaps motivate?

LadyGrace ·

@Penny Penny!! 😂😂 Do you realize how loooong that would take??? Good grief!! Go to your articles and I bet you after you try to do what you suggested I should do, you wouldn't even last up to 20 articles. It's very tedious work and so time consuming. Gimme a break! I'm going to be 77 in December. 😂😄😁😂🤦‍♀️🙃🤗

LeopoldBloom · M

@LadyGrace You should make a copy after each post. I have over 600 reviews on Amazon and decided to make copies after they deleted the account of a guy I was following. He had hundreds of reviews, all gone. So I figured I’d better save my work in case that happens to me.

As it is, Amazon stopped allowing comments on reviews, so all of those are gone. It’s a shame. There was one review by Dr. Gerald Woerlee of a book about near-death experiences with thousands of comments in a long conversation that many people contributed to over several years. All gone now. The review is still there but without any comments.

LadyGrace ·

@LeopoldBloom Oh that is such a shame. I'm so sorry that happened to you and I would have dearly loved to have read the comments. I have begun to save what posts I write that are important to me, in Microsoft Quick Notes on my tablet. I don't have an iPad.

LeopoldBloom · M

@LadyGrace I never thought of saving the comments, but to be honest, most of them wouldn't have made sense without the rest of the thread. I am glad I have all of the reviews saved.