Gone.. everything is gone!!

[MrBen]

Ted Max Wrote:

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(and not just high-rolling kings of the

> universe like Mr Ben).

If kings of the universe drive battered 1993 Ford Escorts (that's 1.8 LXi with Spoiler, Ladies) then that's an apt description Ted.

And when I'm not high rolling it down the lane to Tesco's in that, I'm backing up my little Macbook with Apples easy to use Time Machine software and a 320 MB external drive.

I learned the hard way.

[MrBen]

Er...having said that. I haven't actually tried out Time Machine to restore to a replacement machine to see if it actually works - has anyone? It had better!

Also, obvious, but you need to keep the hard drive somewhere else or it'll get nicked too.

[citizenED]

I don't know about storing all my important docs, photos and downloads in the cloud. But I do know that that my head has been in there for ever.

[Muley]

jollybaby Wrote:

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> One of my good friend's house burned to the ground

> when she was three or four and so she has never

> seen any of her baby photos - I've always thought

> that was really sad.

Tell her not to worry, she looked like Winston Churchill. All babies do.

[SeanMacGabhann]

My original post wasn't to really talk about "losing" things, nor was it a chicken-licken "everything could go wrong and probably will so lets worry worry" post a la Jeremy's suggestion

It was more that people haven't thought through any of the implications of this migration from physical to virtual - and then, bang on cue , people on facebook start throwing up their arms in disgust about something they think is news, even tho they have all installed a million facebook applets where they had to tick a box saying they agree to let each applet access and share their private info

On the one hand I think people deserve what they get, but on the other I think this is a tiny foretaste of something much bigger to come

[mockney piers]

What are the chances, my lovely PC gave up the ghost, hard drive kaput.

A few photos not backed up but otherwise just annoyed at loss of slightly dodgy installation of CS3 (from previous work) and didn't back up my iTunes XML export file or artwork meaning I'll have to dig around for about 500 blimmin album covers.

If anyone still has an AGP motherboard out there then my graphics card was the pinnacle of AGP gaming technology (Radeon X800 if memory serves) and are more than welcome to it, be a pity to see it go to waste.

[bigbadwolf]

Sorry Mockney, are you genuinely concerned about retrieving lost data because from the way you describe it looks as though you're showing your 'equipment' off...again.

Still, I suppose it's better than having HonaloochieB's typewriter wedded with an old microfiche that's somehow got internet connection.

[mockney piers]

It's a five year old graphics card based on a completely obsolete technology, hardly showing off, I'm sure however that there are plenty of people with an older PC who like a bit of gaming and could benefit from a free upgrade, pardon me for caring.

I just thought that it was funny my hard drive blowing up a week after this thread, I've already stated I've lost almost nothing having regularly backed up useful data.

[Jeremy]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> My original post wasn't to really talk about

> "losing" things, nor was it a chicken-licken

> "everything could go wrong and probably will so

> lets worry worry" post a la Jeremy's suggestion

That wasn't really what I was getting at, more that I consider it highly unlikely that MS/Google/etc could go under, without users having enough notice to get their files back. And besides, who's to say that it's not safer on Google's servers than it is in your home? CDs/DVDs deteriorate, hard drives crash, things get broken or stolen, viruses can render disks useless.

I don't store files online, but I'd have no problem doing so in the future if/when it becomes more convenient than local storage.

[bigbadwolf]

So what actually happened then Mockney? Did it go up in flames or was it just the blue screen of death like mine does pretty much whenever it feels like it.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Of course they probably won't go under (but hey, the whole banking system nearly did so who knows) but they might change their T&Cs unfavourably

After all google told everyone who had purchased videos from them "tough luck pal, you can't access them anymore" and gave people very short notice

It's that kind of non-ownership that I'm talking about

oh - and sorry to hear about your data Piers

[mockney piers]

Aaagh, data mostly fine. I'm sad because my beautiful purple PC has died and nowadays I can only afford some dull desktop from dell and will have to fork out five hunnerd quid for a legit copy of Photoshop!!

[Ted Max]

They should have listened to Sean...

http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/10/12/t-mobile-and-microsoft-danger-sidekick-outage-lost-data