just lost everything
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- Carty0
its happened to me, not as badly.
lost 3 shoots which were paid gigs.
this happened way back when i was new to digital. again. it only has to happen once.you can't cry broke and cry cause your shit isn't backed up. you can back up to cd. not backing up is just plain silly. you can't rely on technology to always work. power fails. computers fail. yes i use apple too.
an external is as important as your next breath if you are in the digital industry. it's just a given. i have an external, where everything is backed up. and the external is backed up twice to dvd. every project, every thing. so really, nothing ever lives on my machine. except my programs and the current shit i am working on. which is, by the way, backed up. my pc i use only for itunes, i have 2 drives, one for the xp and one for the itunes folder. its backed up to dvd. my pc crashes all the time. never lost my music on the second drive though.
don't blame apple. blame no backup. cause if you backed up, you would just be waiting for a machine to put your shit back on. it sounds like you've been deleted.
external + dvd burner = a calm state of mind.
ps. i'm on pb hd #3. by the time my second crash happened, i was kinda laughing. cause i learned the first time. i even have all my program .dmg files with serial in a folder...
get organized my friend. sorry for the lecture...