500 Gigs and 7 years ... 2727 Responses

Last post: 2 years, 3 months ago | Thread started: Jul 10, 06, 9:49 a.m.

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• enjine

  ... gone thanks to a hardrive burn-out.

  almost makes getting dumped feel like nothing

  :(

  Jul 10, 06, 9:49 a.m. – Permalink

• kodap

  ouch

  

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  Dog-earJul 10, 06, 9:50 a.m. – Permalink

• enjine

  yeah, all of my source files...

  

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  Dog-earJul 10, 06, 9:52 a.m. – Permalink

• blastofv

  no backup at all in 7 years?

  my condolences - wow that sucks

  

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  Dog-earJul 10, 06, 9:52 a.m. – Permalink

• Jaline

  shit.

  My computer died last week and apparently it's the motherboard. So I'm just getting that fixed first instead of buying a new machine since I have no money at the moment. I'm really hoping my harddrive isn't gone (this guy who works at the store I'm getting it fixed at said that it should be fine).

  

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  Dog-earJul 10, 06, 9:52 a.m. – Permalink

• Jaline

  I'm definitely backing everything up next time.

  

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  Dog-earJul 10, 06, 9:53 a.m. – Permalink

• mg33

  I just installed a new hard drive this weekend, just for additional storage, but moved a ton of very important things over from my C drive, first time I restarted I was just hoping it all went well.

  You're right about it probably being worse than being dumped. Probably worse than being robbed.

  

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  Dog-earJul 10, 06, 9:54 a.m. – Permalink

• enjine

  not really. for some of the stuff, but the most important stuff there are no backups... like all of the exploratory work/code that then gets put into final client pieces. the best stuff usually doesn't even get used, as i'll 'save it for another project'...

  i'm so fucking stupid

  

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  Dog-earJul 10, 06, 9:54 a.m. – Permalink

• Jaline

  Yeah, it sucks A LOT when your whole portfolio goes down the drain. Happened to me a few years ago but luckily I had nothing worth flaunting in there.

  

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  Dog-earJul 10, 06, 9:55 a.m. – Permalink

• canuck

  My ibook died recently, so I can't access what is on the drive.

  However the drive should still be working, I just need to get another mac and switch it. Can't really afford that so, I guess I have lost a bunch of shit too :(

  

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  Dog-earJul 10, 06, 9:57 a.m. – Permalink

• mbr

  yeah, losing stuff sucks.

  I am using iBackUp.com which has an automated backup, which I've set for my most important folders. It's about $100-120 a year for 5 gigs. There are free services, too, PCMag just did an article on them.

  It's nice 'cause you dn't have to worry about losing the data if you get a virus (as with an ext hd).

  Good luck

  

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  Dog-earJul 10, 06, 9:58 a.m. – Permalink

• enjine

  canuck, you don't need another mac. just get a small format harddrive enclosure (USB or Firewire) and plug it in to any other computer. should cost you like 50 bux

  

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  Dog-earJul 10, 06, 10:01 a.m. – Permalink

• canuck

  really. hmm sounds good to me,

  thank

  

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  Dog-earJul 10, 06, 10:04 a.m. – Permalink

• jaylarson

  bring it to the geek squad. there ain't much they can't do. they are fo' shizzle! saved my ass several times.

  

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  Dog-earJul 10, 06, 10:08 a.m. – Permalink

• horton

  holy crap 7 years !!! you guys are crazy gambling all that on a little spinning disk.

  backup everything. clone to a 2nd HD as much as possible and get into a regular routine of offloading files to DVD.

  

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  Dog-earJul 10, 06, 10:08 a.m. – Permalink

• brandboy

  you're too late horton

  

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  Dog-earJul 10, 06, 10:09 a.m. – Permalink

• brandboy

  sorry to hear that enj, what the hell is with all this bad stuff happening to you?

  fuck

  

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  Dog-earJul 10, 06, 10:10 a.m. – Permalink

• son

  dang,

  i see things like that like this...

  first apt. i ever had. was filled w/ either poetry or rap/hiphoplyrics scattered around the house, i said i'ma get all them papers soon... before i knew it, all my stuff clothes everything up in flames...

  so exhausted from the expierence couldnt even get mad... just felt bad.

  oh well...this is the start of a new beginning...it has to be unless you wanna go backwards...

  oh well..

  God Bless you -

  

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  Dog-earJul 10, 06, 10:15 a.m. – Permalink

• Rand

  ARE YOU FUCKIN KIDDIN ME?

  

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  Dog-earJul 10, 06, 10:15 a.m. – Permalink

• enjine

  "what the hell is with all this bad stuff happening to you?"

  exactly. i have no idea. but it keeps getting worse and worse... lower and lower.

  honestly, i found this card a few months ago in the street. it was a Magic-like card (the game). it was on the corner of like Broadway and 21st.

  It was purple, and had this dude holding this mass of energy in front of his chest. And the name of the card:

  Absolute End

  Basically you take all of your energy and turn it against yourself. --i don't play these games, but i thought it was a pretty wicked card and put it in my pocket. Put it on my wall then and then packed it with all of my stuff when i moved a month ago.

  i think this fucking Absolute End card is cursing me, and i can't fucking find it in my boxes since moving.

  

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  Dog-earJul 10, 06, 10:16 a.m. – Permalink

• enjine

  thanks son...

  Rand, nope. I started with 150 gig or something like that, and continuously rolled over all of the files as i got bigger hard drives. i have older versions of the drive, as it got rolled over, but really it's the past 5 or so months of work that are so much more important than the older stuff.

  

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  Dog-earJul 10, 06, 10:18 a.m. – Permalink