i just run mine on a cd and put into the cd binders. and type out what is on it fold it in with each disc. a disc holds quite a bit. the ones that i print out are devided into notebooks by theme with a index typed for the 1st page.if you run rw/cds you can always add to it. until i get to it they are saved from adobe reader to folders.i am saving a few boms this year. they have ones i like this year last couple of years not so much. i am also starting a stitch along to learn to embroider that just started on cloverandvelvet.com.
also sometime you can recover things on the computer if it has a app to go back to a date that everything worked. i've used that funtion a few times. i have a hp computer i don't know if all computers have this or not. i am just a novice at the computer.