If it just turns to chaos, I guess you just stop the train and get off for a while… It wouldn’t be a simple process, but maybe it could save you time and result in a more complete manual over time. This would be an interaction between users and you, so I’m not sure how it would go. Then people could pick topics to write about. Perhaps the first step would be to create an outline of what needs to be in such a manual–your suggested list of “keywords and topics”, then how it would be organized. Hopefully, they would have reasonable writing skills, of course, but they would submit their draft to you, and you would edit for accuracy, without having to do all the writing from scratch. Maybe some active users could draft guides on particular issues they had to figure out for themselves and they now feel they understand well enough to help others with it. I wonder if the detailed guide or User’s Manual could start somehow as a community effort. I imagine you have your hands full just keeping up with the code writing you want to do and that people are requesting. In this article we show the basic screens and steps required to set up a backup, and explain some of the options. There is also a very bare-bones “getting started” guide here: Not sure how this should work, but for now I am trying to do this in terms of “how-to”'s (see # howto for progress). Having more description of what the program does and what to expect in the future would help build your audience. Still, it I think it would help if people who stumble across Duplicati feel more invited to stay, or to consider coming back if things have not quite gelled for them. I realize that the program is still in development, the developers probably don’t have time to work on a manual which will be constantly changing, and that most of those who are following the program are more savvy (and multi-platform aware) than some users who might be interested but a bit perplexed by some stuff. Probably one of the biggest limitations right now for Duplicati is the lack of a thorough, up to date manual that helps the user along with little details like this, as well as step-by-step on some items. Browse to Network computer, History Dates
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