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Have you ever lost a shitload of data?
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I like your attitude about it, though.

As usual, we had waited until the very last minute to do them so we couldn't go to dinner at my parent's place like we had planned to that evening. It's bad enough doing the taxes but to have to do them when you're in a foul mood...
Now we just do them by hand even though, as of October 2004, fill-in forms were enabled with "document rights" which allow you to save what you filled in.
Barb wrote: "I'm happy to say that I've not had that kind of misfortune ... I'd lose my mind if I lost all our pictures though."
Back them up to an external hard drive Barb. You can get one for around $100.
Back them up to an external hard drive Barb. You can get one for around $100.

Apparently I have been saving my data to the server for YEARS and didn't know I was. Everything is saved. Yay me. And yay Eric, the tech guy who explained this to me with a look of sad acceptance that he will probably have to explain this to me again sometime.


At home, I never save anything onto my local hard drive. All my data, including docs, music, photos, etc., gets automatically routed onto an external hard drive. Hard drives have an uncanny knack for crashing and burning on those who don't heed calls for backing up data.


I looked everywhere...I thought I'd misplaced it, but that was impossible. My dad started screaming at me, thinking that I'd brought it out of the house, and started threatening to take away priviledges and all sorts of shit. So I got pissed off and screamed back that it wasn't my fault and I didn't take it out of the house. By that time, I could actually feel myself losing it, a sort of tingly feeling running up the sides of my head that meant I was going to blank out into a state of panic.
I went back up to my room and stood there awhile, just looking at the table, and I remembered very specifically that it had been on the table the day before. I hadn't moved it. I remembered that the battery low light had been blinking...then my mom looked out the window and saw a broom on the roof. Started crying.
"Crying can get you a tight slap," said dad.
Have you ever lost a shitload of data? Were you able to get it back? How'd you respond? Will the tech guys get my data back?