I highly recommend that you buy an extremal hard drive to back up anything that you want to keep. They're cheap. They plug into your USB port. Never have only one copy of your favorite stuff on just one hard drive. I occasionally back up my back up external hard drive to another external hard drive just in case. Would you believe that I've actually needed that second back up at least three time in the last five years? Hard drives are like incandescent light bulbs. The have a certain number of hours of use then they burn out. My first back up drive gets regular use because I don't trust my computer to save important stuff. If the computer main drive dies you lose everything that's on the computer. But you can still plug your back up drive into another computer. Why have a second back up drive? Your first back up drive burns up usage hours ever time that you use it. You will only back up your first back up drive to your second one occasionally. So when the first back up drive fails you still have everything that you had the last time that you backed it up saved on your second backup drive. It's not a total loss. Why would I go to all of that trouble? I have a couple of terabytes of stuff that I don't want to lose because it's not available on any web site anymore. Why? Because artists who do really good work sometimes decide that they need to protect their reputations with their families; from people at work and from their non-furry customers especially if they are professional artists. So they leave furry fandom behind and try to scrub every trace of their art furry art and all of their their connections to furry fandom in general from the internet. My collection goes back to the early '90's. Unfortunately, the pictures and flash files are in thousands of folders all over my hard drives in no particular order and the file names are often just a string of letters and numbers. My collection is organized like a college dorm room. :) But I can usually find a particular image that I last saw years ago with about four to six hours of searching. I'm not kidding.
Edward Fox
Received on Mon Jun 01 2015 - 02:16:33 CDT