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Don't Do This
Here is some advice. Don't take 10 years worth of model files, that you collected on four separate computers, and place them all onto a single 16gig usb drive...then lose the drive.
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I feel your pain. Happened to me with a 4G thumb drive, and it took me almost 2 years to get MOST of my collection back. Yeah, don't do it!
Bob
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Oh man! That's gotta hurt. Hope you find the thumb drive soon.
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Hope you find that drive soon... That is the reason why I use double backups on USB hard Drives and DVDs
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Look on the bright side, its a good incentive for a spring cleaning. Lost is better than destroyed because at least there is hope!
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Sorry to hear about your drive Avro. While it probably wouldn't have helped you, I hope you don't mind my sharing a piece of related advice. On every electronic device you own (phones, cameras, memory cards and drives, computers, etc) create a file titled "IF FOUND PLEASE CALL" and place it somewhere unsecured for the nosey and civic-hearted to read. In the case of phones, create a contact that's similarly named (ICE: In Case of Emergency is a common acronym that paramedics look for). In the case of cameras, take a picture of a card that contains your brief thanks and contact info.
I cannot tell you how many research papers, mothers, and photo streams I've had to use to piece together who a bit of kit might belong to over the years in my line of work. And while the info I found on the DARPA flash drive was fun to read, I would have much rather found something along the lines of; "Thank you so much for finding my drive. Nothing on this drive is secure and you don't need a lawyer, yet. But if you call (XXX) XXX-XXXX I would be incredibly grateful!" |
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My sympathies.
I must add, that I did this but I had two 32G flash drives. As extra safety, I copied them to a new lenovo laptop BEFORE deleting them from my old computer. Three copies should be enough? But I cut and pasted the data from one drive, thus deleting it. Otherwise I end up with multiple copies of everything backed-up, which is irritating when files are occasionally edited. All well and good, except then I promptly lost the one drive (the one I had cut and pasted) and then the new computer motherboard crashed and had to be replaced under warranty (1 in 5000 chance I was informed). Fortunately the lost drive did NOT have my paper models on it . But, if I want the rest of my life back I have to now physically reconstruct three defunct computers and repeat the whole process . I guess it is time to move along...and keep modeling! |
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Somehow, I had a USB drive fall out of the overhead storage above my desk and the cat chewed it up. I have no clue what was on that drive. Good luck
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I back-up (using Synctoy - excellent) from one drive to two others. Portable drives.
I use the one as a master and make changes there, then use SyncToy to copy over the changes/addttions to the other two. So far so good! Cross fingers!
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This is why I periodically send all my downloaded files to a gmail account that I set up especially for that purpose. I can download them from the account to my computer anytime I want to print one out, and they're about as secure as you can get. I figure if Google ever goes offline, we're probably all doomed anyway.
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