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Data Loss
Today I lost over half of my music and my Steam games and save files. I'm trying to take it in stride, since I know it can all be regained. It's just going to take a while. I'm just glad I didn't lose anything truly important.
Help ease my pain and spin your yarns of data loss, be it of hard drive failure or the stupidity of yourself or others.
Help ease my pain and spin your yarns of data loss, be it of hard drive failure or the stupidity of yourself or others.
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I had a big hard drive crash once, but didn't lose anything important. I did once accidentally format a digital camera memory card, and lost all the pictures of the cats when they were kittens. My girlfriend was crushed.
I'm so paranoid about losing my work data that I have a batch file that I use to back it up to an external hard drive every hour or so, and I upload it to a server every night.
Good luck with the restoration of your data.
[Edit] Now I'm reading about a hundred cases from people who's Barracudas also failed in three months time.
About 120 Gigs was a backup partition, and the rest was FULL of data. It fell from a high place (my fault). It seems the backup partition is where the badness is, so I think I might be able to spinrite the rest and transfer it to a new hard drive. This is happening tomorrow.
Yikes I don't want to lose my data.
I did get that hard drive per your recommendation. Not that it's your fault, because I think you recommended it before the news fully hit and I haven't paid attention to tech news for over half a year, but I definitely didn't feel like I needed to research something that you said was A-OK.
Oh well. I'll get my files back and buy a JungleDisk to prevent this headache from ever happening again.
Since then I have a backup of all my files from all the computers around the house on that drive.
The other day I screwed up and lost 12gig of video files. You know what I did? Restored the files from a backup I made 20 minutes before. I could throw my laptop off a bridge today, buy a new one tomorrow and only lose a few hours work. Id have to try Realy Hard to lose any important data. And I'm not even a computer geek!
Over the years, I have had roughly 10% of my drives fail before they become too small and get replaced. This is just something you can't avoid, so prepare for it and back shit up.
Oh, and Luke, how badly must you screw up to lose 12 GIGABYTES of video that require external backups to be restored? Just vanilla deleting 12 GB takes time.
EDIT: Specifically, I was clearing out clips that I no longer need on a project that I'm continually editing (will be finished at the end of the year). Going through, selecting each one, rejecting it, then sending rejected clips to the trash was taking ages. I had to be really careful because I've not found a way to "un-reject" a clip.
So instead I used the "send all unused clips to trash. This not only sent all unused clips to the trash, it also sent EVERY SINGLE FRAME I wasn't using on the clips I WAS using to the trash. This meant I was only left with the exact length of clips I was using, and not a frame more. How am I meant to edit by only shortening clips?
However, I only found out iMovie worked like this AFTER I did it. And I couldn't find a way to undo it, or get imovie to re-accept the movie out of the trash. So I restored 12GB of movie data by Time Machine.