things you should know that have direct bearing on my mood today:
sometime between saturday evening and sunday morning, my work-laptop’s hard drive decided to commit suicide in a most bloody and gory manner (ok, not really, but i’m imagining a battle of epic 300 proportions happening on my hard drive). it’s fried crispier than the colonel ever thought possible.
my companies mis team has thus far been unable to salvage anything.
what this means? it means that i’ve lost:
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all current documents related to the 4 shows i’m currently in production on
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photographs of the last 2 years worth of shows and events
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banner idea’s folder for this lil’ blog
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30 gig’s of music in my itunes folder
now, before you so politely ask me “why, oh why didn’t you backup your files” – well, yes – that would have been a good idea. but you must realize i’m on the road about 70% of the year… i need access to my files and music on a fairly consistent basis. thankfully, just in december, i moved most of my historical 2007 files onto our network so i have those in my back pocket.
but still – fuck fuck fuckity fuck fuck!
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January 29, 2008 at 1:01 am
Wendy CPM
Aaaaagh! (That may have been the more appropriate Charlie Brown reference…) SO SO sorry to hear about your hard drive crash, that totally sucks. I had a 50% crash a few months ago and only then was I prompted to backup to an external drive and put all of my bookmarks online. We live and we learn… (but it doesn’t make the learning suck any less…) If you can stand the potential implications, Google documents and spreadsheets might be an idea to consider for online document storage and access… My deepest sympathies!
January 29, 2008 at 6:47 am
Tony
Wow. That sucks out loud. I had a similar experience when my old iMac died. I now try to remember to drag my files to my beautiful 500 gig drive so that I won’t loose everything. I hope they are able to resurrect your info.
January 29, 2008 at 7:57 am
voenixrising
Sorry to hear about your hard drive crash, but let’s face it…the thing’s mechanical, and mechanical things break down, especially the ones that spin at 7200 RPM and have tolerances less than the width of a human hair. I’m forever scolding people at work who cry when their drives crash after storing everything on their locally and not on the network (like they’re supposed to). And believe me, I’ve seen a LOT of drives go down. I tell them there is a company that can retrieve their info (Drivesavers) and they get all excited. “I’ll pay anything to get my stuff back!” That is, until they learn it will cost THOUSANDS of dollars.
Thing is, even after this happens, when I go back six months later, where is all their stuff stored? Yep. Back on the local hard drives. Some people never learn.
Nothing can (cheaply) bring back what you’ve lost, but I’d seriously suggest investing in a portable USB hard drive and back up REGULARLY so this never happens again.
(If it’s any consolation, this has happened to me as well, and ONCE was all it took.)
January 29, 2008 at 8:53 am
Ray
Oh baby – that’s very uncool. I hate to think about what would happen if I were in the same situation. I’d probably melt down and eat the nearest undergraduate who walked by. Feet first just to hear them scream.
Re the backup. Yeah, everyone always says – make a back up, but there is such a deluge of shitty back up software it seems. It should be as easy as it sounds – just back the shit up. And make it come back when things fuck up.
It never does.
January 29, 2008 at 6:51 pm
johnmichael
That is one of the best Charlie Brown cartoons that I’ve seen!