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# 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)