Many computers, one writer
I tend to feel a bit puzzled when I see that someone's computer died and took everything with it. I'm one person. I'm embarrassed to say that not only do I have redundant automatic backup, I have five computers.
One was supposed to run my TV and that thing stopped working right away. I've never had luck with ASUS machines. I don't know what to do with it. One is an old XP laptop that runs really slow and wrist-burning hot. The other is a slightly less old XP laptop that I use whenever I need to run something that doesn't run on mac. Then I have my old big iMac and my new big iMac. I bought the new big iMac when the old one was looking at retirement and starting to throw funky lines of colorful stuff across the monitor. I figured it was mostly dead. It surprised me, then, and ran for a couple more years!
Until today. However, I've become attached to it as my "standing desk" computer and I think I'll just see if it needs its graphics card replaced. iMacs run hot too, and sometimes parts of them fry. But they're very fixable.
Anyway, it feels really good to feel like I can fix stuff at my leisure rather than "OMG I JUST LOST MY LIVELIHOOD." Even the document I was working on when old iMac went funkadelic was automatically saved, cos scrivener is awesome that way.
One was supposed to run my TV and that thing stopped working right away. I've never had luck with ASUS machines. I don't know what to do with it. One is an old XP laptop that runs really slow and wrist-burning hot. The other is a slightly less old XP laptop that I use whenever I need to run something that doesn't run on mac. Then I have my old big iMac and my new big iMac. I bought the new big iMac when the old one was looking at retirement and starting to throw funky lines of colorful stuff across the monitor. I figured it was mostly dead. It surprised me, then, and ran for a couple more years!
Until today. However, I've become attached to it as my "standing desk" computer and I think I'll just see if it needs its graphics card replaced. iMacs run hot too, and sometimes parts of them fry. But they're very fixable.
Anyway, it feels really good to feel like I can fix stuff at my leisure rather than "OMG I JUST LOST MY LIVELIHOOD." Even the document I was working on when old iMac went funkadelic was automatically saved, cos scrivener is awesome that way.
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Sean wrote: "Crap, that sounded like an infomercial...."Mine could totally sound like an infomercial for Dropbox if I really waxed honestly about how much I love it. I'd say it's basically like Google Drive except it creates a physical folder on your computer and anything you put in there also gets backed up on the cloud and synchs to all your computers.
Puffy just puked on the bed. Ho hum.
Way back in the 90's I lost a couple of weeks of hard work, had to send my hard drive off to the gurus to try and rescue some data, they were able to retrieve a little but not enough. Then in the '00s I lost all my pictures when a laptop that I rarely backed up went belly up.I'm not good at remembering to do anything on a regular basis so if it was left up to me, I'd still be backing up dangerously irregularly. Automatic backup has now saved me twice and I'm a huge fan.
Dev wrote: "Way back in the 90's I lost a couple of weeks of hard work, had to send my hard drive off to the gurus to try and rescue some data, they were able to retrieve a little but not enough..."Ugh! That's awful! The worst thing I lost was a couple years of POP email. Sometimes you need to refer back to a conversation a couple of years later, especially if contract terms are being discussed. I had backup scheduled, but evidently I hadn't selected my mail folder for backup. Since then I switched to Gmail and basically save everything.
Crap, that sounded like an infomercial. "I just download it into Google Drive and then I never have to worry again! La!"