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[scarfman]

I went and uploaded to GoogleDocs the spreadsheet where I track my cartoons that has been inaccessible for almost a week. Despite warnings of formatting losses, which I'm familiar with after maintaining the spreadsheet in OpenOffice instead of MSOffice for a year recently, I'm not seeing any trouble spots yet, perhaps because of modifications I made while I was keeping it in OpenOffice. I greatly prefer keeping my files locally - I don't trust any given cloud service provider to always be there*, and I don't trust Google after the way their Usenet archive has deteriorated. But I use this spreadsheet daily, and the laptop that has MSOffice won't power up, and the laptop that had OpenOffice stopped running it. The cloud must do for now. Next step, finding out what format(s) in which it can be downloaded back.

* Which reminds me, I need to get into my late wife's Amazon logon and download what music she had in her library. And video, if any. If there's now a way to download video that works.