If I have created complex files or multimedia files, such as Adobe Acrobat files full of images and tables and things, how can I be sure to retrieve these types of files in the future?
While a software company may be popular and successful today, no one can guarantee that it will always exist, or that the file format you use now will always exist. For this reason, save the components of your complex or multimedia files in their simplest forms and in the simplest file formats that are most likely to endure into the future. By all means, save your complex files as well. Ultimately, the simplest file format is a print-out. Use acid-free paper and laser printing, not ink jet (which can run easily when exposed to water), or use true silver halide photo paper and a photo printer. Textual information can best be stored in .txt file format. This is ASCII (“asky”) – an information exchange format containing just the characters of the keyboard. ASCII is used by MAC and PC computers, as well as by self-contained word processor machines, computer software, etc. For example, an Internet page is called an .htm or .html file, but it is simply a .txt file with a change made to the t
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