You know how they are always saying that you should "backup" all of your computer files? After our hard drive crashed last year, I learned the importance of this. Since then, I have been saving all of my files on portable jump drives, which I thought was a "backup." My major concern was not losing the darn little suckers, so I tied colorful ribbon to all of them. Recently, I learned about Google Docs and have been thinking about saving my files there so as to avoid the stress of losing a jump drive.
Yesterday, there I am, sitting in class. We were doing this moderately effective stand-up, sit-down activity; in the process, I bumped---read: lightly BUMPED--my jump drive. You know where this is going. Yep, it made this tiny, horrible little snapping sound. And that was that. All of my pictures, videos, documents, and time have disappeared into la la land. After calling a million places (okay, four) trying to figure out if this could be fixed, I finally accepted that it was a lost cause. A very well meaning store clerk (probably 16 with acne), asked me the classic IT question: "Do you have a backup?" I wanted to laugh and scream at the same time!!!! The flash drive was supposed to be the backup! I was so cautious about needing to backup work saved on the harddrive, that I jumped right to the backup flash drive. Apparently, a backup is only a backup if it backsup something else.
At least I am not the only one to suffer this irritating fate:
2 comments:
No, you're definitely not the only one. Experience though, is generally an excellent teacher...
This is awesome! I better check into the Google back up you mentioned. Thanks for the scoop.
Mom
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