As long-time Basecamp users we realized there was no easy way to get the files we抳e uploaded. The Basecamp API and export utilities don抰 provide them, so the only way to backup your files is to click on each link and save the files manually or use a Firefox download extension. We have several years worth of projects stored in Basecamp; it would take weeks to do this manually.
Backup your Basecamp files
Here抯 where Parachute comes in. Parachute backs up all the files for your Basecamp projects to your hard drive. You can back up just one project in a just a couple of minutes or you can backup everything.
Parachute archived all the files from our Basecamp account in a couple of hours. That抯 nearly three gigabytes of data and 4,000 files from more than 50 projects.
Create a complete HTML export
Basecamp offers a really handy HTML export feature that gives you all your data as website you can browse locally. Alas, this export doesn抰 include any links to your files.
Parachute will backup your files and add them back into Basecamp抯 HTML export. Links to files in messages and to-do lists will work exactly as they did in the original project.
You now have a complete HTML archive of a project you can give to a client or save for future reference.
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By day Gene Smith is a principal with nForm, one of Canada's leading user experience consulting firms. By night he writes about information architecture, interaction design, community, the web and other such topics. order viagra onlineorder cialisMore >
By day Gene Smith is a principal with nForm, one of Canada's leading user experience consulting firms. By night he writes about information architecture, interaction design, community, the web and other such topics. 
