500 Gigs and 7 years ...
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- enjine
... gone thanks to a hardrive burn-out.
almost makes getting dumped feel like nothing
:(
- kodap0
ouch
- enjine0
yeah, all of my source files...
- blastofv0
no backup at all in 7 years?
my condolences - wow that sucks
- Jaline0
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).
- Jaline0
I'm definitely backing everything up next time.
- mg330
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.
- enjine0
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
- Jaline0
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.
- canuck0
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 :(
- mbr0
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
- enjine0
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
- canuck0
really. hmm sounds good to me,
thank
- jaylarson0
bring it to the geek squad. there ain't much they can't do. they are fo' shizzle! saved my ass several times.
- horton0
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.
- brandboy0
you're too late horton
- brandboy0
sorry to hear that enj, what the hell is with all this bad stuff happening to you?
fuck
- son0
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 -
- Rand0
ARE YOU FUCKIN KIDDIN ME?
- enjine0
"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.
- enjine0
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.