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Every time I do a backup I lose my new clips

I make new clips for my Yahoo answeers and EVERY SINGLE time it comes around for my 3 day backup it throws them away

It is useless for me to use this thing!!!!

I do not get what is happening I migh as well be using stone tablets and dropping them

I AM STILL HAVING MORE PROBLEMS MORE AND MORE AND MORE IT KEEPS DELETING MY CLIPS EVERY TIMR I BACKUP


WHY???????????????????????????????????/

12/13/2012 = I have decided to stop using this piece of garbage, it deletes my clips when I back up! it de;etes my clips when I close! I NEVE keep ANYHING I DO!!! WHY USE IT??? I CAN USE RTF files and ACTUALLY HAVE MY CLIPS!!!!!!!
GOODBYE!!!!

Thank you for the WONDERFUL SUPPORT (incase you did not get that it was sarcasm)

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Kathryn White

Hi Rose

Sorry to hear you are having so much trouble. Not even sure how this is possible. I have trialed several hundred Clipboard managers and until very recently there has never even been a single challenger to the Throne of both most robust, flexible and easy to use Clipboard manager.
I assume that your settings for you inbox and properties for Garbage Avoidance and Purging Rules may have been altered and that you are simply losing contents of your inbox or overflow or trashcan. Also, are you aware that the Clipmate 7 inbox holds only 200 clips, the Overflow holds 800 and the Trashcan holds 3 to 7 days (but might be adjustable]. Most other clipboard managers hold 5 to 25 clips . CM 7 assumes that most users don't want to collec too much clip litter. But i have emough ram that i like to save my clips to a more permanent Inbox folder i named TBS aka To Be Sorted and move up to the Top of the Tree so i can easily access

Next i
Right Click | Properties | Garbage Avoidance | Accept New Clips and also

Right Click | Properties | Properties |Purging Rules | Never

As long as the TBS folder aka Collection remains selected. All copying to clipboard will automatically

There are many ways to save your data inside clipmate 7 aka CM7. First of all you can export your entire collection both as individual files, or as one xml file which can be imported even by other users you share with.

Do you currently have a COLLECTION aka Folder in the Collection Tree named Yahoo Answers in which you either directly collect your yahoo answers or Drag & Drop from the inbox after selecting fromt eh clip list. I have used Clipmate for nearly 10 years and have only lost my work once from a unrecoverable hard drive crash. i now use clipmate 7 up to 1000 times per day or more saving entire webpages with simple CTRL+A, CTRL+C...and i never lose my data as long as i remember to occasionally go in and sort and move my captured clips to a final destination. You can always create your own To Be Sorted = TBS folder collection...then Right Click | Properties | Garbage Avoidance | Accept New Clips and also Properties |Purging Rules | Never

Seems that Clipmate auto backups my current CM7 datablase as a zip file every 7 days. Current collection on my current desktop goes back for a few years:
On my desktop these files are stored in:
C:\Users\soultouch\Documents\ClipMate7\ on your computer soultouch would be replaced with your

Here is an example of one of several hundred folders:
C:\Users\soultouch\Documents\ClipMate7\ClipMate7_DB_My Clips_2012-08-16_0345\

blobblob.blb, 18,203,136 bytes, 8/16/2012 03:45:56
blobblob.dat, 61,992 bytes, 8/16/2012 03:45:56
blobblob.idx, 119,296 bytes, 8/16/2012 03:45:56
blobjpg.blb, 8,704 bytes, 8/16/2012 03:45:54
blobjpg.dat, 3,640 bytes, 8/16/2012 03:45:54
blobjpg.idx, 41,472 bytes, 8/16/2012 03:45:54
blobpng.blb, 8,102,400 bytes, 8/16/2012 03:45:54
blobpng.dat, 5,152 bytes, 8/16/2012 03:45:54
blobpng.idx, 41,472 bytes, 8/16/2012 03:45:54
blobtxt.blb, 1,550,592 bytes, 8/16/2012 03:45:54
blobtxt.dat, 96,544 bytes, 8/16/2012 03:45:54
blobtxt.idx, 168,448 bytes, 8/16/2012 03:45:54
clip.dat, 978,464 bytes, 8/16/2012 03:45:52
clip.idx, 922,112 bytes, 8/16/2012 03:45:52
clipdata.dat, 310,656 bytes, 8/16/2012 03:45:54
clipdata.idx, 180,736 bytes, 8/16/2012 03:45:54
coll.dat, 30,720 bytes, 8/16/2012 03:45:52
coll.idx, 53,760 bytes, 8/16/2012 03:45:52
shortcut.dat, 3,728 bytes, 8/16/2012 03:45:56
shortcut.idx, 45,568 bytes, 8/16/2012 03:45:56
users.dat, 3,584 bytes, 7/24/2012 14:25:00
users.idx, 29,184 bytes, 7/24/2012 14:25:00
anyway, hopes that some of this may help you