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# newsletter! on time for once
b3ta.com/newsletter/issue513/
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Fri 27 Jan 2012, 13:50, archived)
# Yay!
*does the Friday dance*
(I helped save b3ta! thecrapgatsby isn't listening LALALALALALA, Fri 27 Jan 2012, 13:52, archived)
# * A BUTTON ON YOUR LAPTOP THAT GOES "SHOW ME THE FOLDER WHERE THAT LAST THING I SAVED IS" -
on XP, Start > Documents .. - TA DAA. Either Hover over a bit or right click it for properties.

forgot I had to use " & gt ; " for >
(waxdart hello., Fri 27 Jan 2012, 13:54, archived)
# unless it just doesn't work just so it can mess with your head
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Fri 27 Jan 2012, 14:07, archived)
# I never use it.
Save most things on the desktop whilst working on it. Back it up to a "sort" folder on the network to cover for tits'up'ness and then file it away later.

I use google desktop to dig stuff back out. I'll have forgotten where it was saved after a few days.
Too much to remember anyways. I did read an interesting thing back when Bryce 5 was out. They wanted to make a program that sorted things in pictures. You remember real locations better so make the file system as real world as possible. So all your word files would be saved on the beach under the big blue pebble. All your porn would be in the bathroom picture under the loose floor board. A lot'o'faff. i'd save all my excel documents up the BBW's arse.

(waxdart hello., Fri 27 Jan 2012, 14:34, archived)
# I just have fixed places I put stuff :)
makes it easier

apart from the random old "collect the shit off the old hard drive and dump it in there and sort it out later" stuff

which of course becomes "thar be beasties" after 10 years :)

which I end up never using in any way again ever, I'm doing something wrong.
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Fri 27 Jan 2012, 14:50, archived)
# I am only slightly concerned
but due to buying bigger and bigger hard drives each time, the "old files I should probably sort out" folders have been growing and growing, and taking up proportionally less of the total storage space.

There are times when I wonder if having a total backup failure and having to resort to square one might actually be therapeutic.
(I helped save b3ta! sanityclause is waiting until, Fri 27 Jan 2012, 15:07, archived)
# what I find fun
is when you backup everything

and you format the old drive

and it's

oh

15 minutes in

there was stuff

think of kittens when it happens
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Fri 27 Jan 2012, 15:41, archived)
# I did this on an old laptop
on which I'd saved around 200 photos from an amazing explore in a derelict school which was later demolished. Because it was a slightly naughty activity, I stored the photos in an obscure folder.

OK, all clear, all backed up, load up Darik's to format the drive to sell it on eBay. Well, that's going fine, I can go and make a cup of... hang on - the photos!

*bites lip*


...lost.
(I helped save b3ta! sanityclause is waiting until, Fri 27 Jan 2012, 15:55, archived)
# eep
:(

it could have been a nice little surprise for the buyer :)
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Fri 27 Jan 2012, 16:53, archived)
# Hahaha
Spammer!! :P
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# I don't get it
What's Linkdin done, then?
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Fri 27 Jan 2012, 14:01, archived)
# it's like facebook, but for professionals that don't want other professionals to know they're cunts
except it already made clear, by having a linkdin account
(I helped save b3ta! real i'm not happy 'til you're not happy, Fri 27 Jan 2012, 14:07, archived)
# ^ this
I signed up for it once, and eventually had to add linkedin.com to my spam filter because frankly, it's for cunts
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 27 Jan 2012, 14:45, archived)
# and I'm about to go to work
must... resist...
(I helped save b3ta! The Silent Channel is getting his recommended 5-a-day, Fri 27 Jan 2012, 14:11, archived)
# Yay
Cheers Rob
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 27 Jan 2012, 14:40, archived)