My most treasured possessionWhat's your most treasured possession? What would you rescue from a fire (be it for sentimental or purely financial reasons)?
My Great-Uncle left me his visitors book which along with boring people like the Queen and Harold Wilson has Spike Milligan's signature in it. It's all loopy.
Either that or my Grandfather's swords.
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chthonic, Thu 8 May 2008, 12:38)
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Box of PhotosNot funny, clever or anything, just sentimental value. I have a really bad memory and so photos help me remember good times.
Of course (as for most people) most of my photos are now on my computer. I wonder how many of us who have such vital info stored in such a way have it backed up? Only half of mine are.
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e.m.m.y. foxtrot uniform charlie kilo india tango, Fri 9 May 2008, 10:30,
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PhotosI used to have lots of large professionally-done photos, from just about every year at school and a few others, plus some nice prints signed by lots of friends. None were properly framed, I just kept them in those original brown cardboard frames, in a big jigsaw box on top of my wardrobe.
After backpacking around the world for a year and a half, I returned to my parents' house to find that my old room had been redecorated and turned into a guest bedroom (to be fair, I was 23 now). When I asked where all my photos were, my mother first looked puzzled, then turned white, then scuttled down to the cellar and returned with a soggy jigsaw box containing a solid block of photographic paper and mould. Gutting.
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backupI actually DO backup my photos. The amount of times I've nearly lost them over the years due to piss-poor hard-drives is amazing.
A couple of weeks ago I backed up the whole lot to an external USB drive - the very next day the HDD in the machine died completely.
I'm actually considering burning them all to several DVDs and shoving them in a fire-proof safe!
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Backing up photos.What you should really do is make two copies of the CD/DVD/HDDVD/BD of photos and use a program to check the integrity of the media. If there are any read-errors, make a backup of the good copy.
@ Cockbrush: My condolences
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mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Fri 9 May 2008, 12:31,
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