I’d like to be able to download an entire project as a .zip archive once it has ended (maintaining Directory structure and converting message boards to .txt files, for example). This way, it doesn’t take up disk and screen space, and I can keep it for posterity.

Alternatively/additionally—it would be great if archived projects don’t count against your disk space quota.

This raises another issue: It would then be handy to be able to “re-activate” that project in the future if required to—by uploading the archive. Basecamp would then parse the files into the correct places, etc.

For an additional fee, perhaps you could offer to archive a project onto a DVD disk…

Thanks! -Michael Swartz

Sounds very complex and not useful to a lot of users. Can’t imagine this would be a future feature.

I would use the “Archive to downloadable .ZIP file” at the conclusion of most projects—saving me from saving each item in the Writeboards, each File, and from saving the “People” in this project and the “Milestones” in this project manually.

Much less frequently would I want to reactivate a project from a ZIP. But I might want to start a new project (with a new name) which would import the same set of people, and the same message categories, and the same project overview text, from an previously archived project. For example, open up “Annual Meeting 2008” project by starting with ZIPed “Annual Meeting 2007”. But this is far less important than just the archiving.

What point is archiving without re-import?