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Nov. 5th, 2010 08:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
noracharlesMy netbook has finally died. Taking backups was so time consuming that I only made sure to back up my most vital files, so now I can't get at all the important but not vital things I had saved. It's a nuisance.
I also miss sitting in the morning sun while reading the news and checking my mail.
Maybe one of those harddisk readers would work? I'll have to ask in the computer store.
So! I now have a dropbox. I wonder why I never bothered to look at it when I first heard about it. Guess I assumed my regular backup methods were sufficient.
In the two years the netbook has been my primary computer, I've done okay. I had a recent backup of all my install files, and of my bookmarks, feeds and contacts, and of important documents of importance to real life. I don't have fanfic, art and vids I had saved to view off line. Most of it I will be able to find again, and what had been taken off the net by the creators I'm not too worried about.
For some strange reason, I never bothered to back up my own fic. I've been writing mostly for the harddisk for years, and had maybe two dozen fics in varying stages of completion. Finished fics I have "backed up" in that they are published, but works in progress I haven't. I feel a bit nostalgic for lost opportunities, but the reason they were works in progress is that I didn't have enough enthusiasm for the idea to finish them, or they were overly ambitious, or I didn't much like what I had written so far. In a way I feel off the hook.
What I miss more than the WIPs are my notes, because some of my story ideas had realistic potential and I have a memory like a sieve for things like that.
I also miss sitting in the morning sun while reading the news and checking my mail.
Maybe one of those harddisk readers would work? I'll have to ask in the computer store.
So! I now have a dropbox. I wonder why I never bothered to look at it when I first heard about it. Guess I assumed my regular backup methods were sufficient.
In the two years the netbook has been my primary computer, I've done okay. I had a recent backup of all my install files, and of my bookmarks, feeds and contacts, and of important documents of importance to real life. I don't have fanfic, art and vids I had saved to view off line. Most of it I will be able to find again, and what had been taken off the net by the creators I'm not too worried about.
For some strange reason, I never bothered to back up my own fic. I've been writing mostly for the harddisk for years, and had maybe two dozen fics in varying stages of completion. Finished fics I have "backed up" in that they are published, but works in progress I haven't. I feel a bit nostalgic for lost opportunities, but the reason they were works in progress is that I didn't have enough enthusiasm for the idea to finish them, or they were overly ambitious, or I didn't much like what I had written so far. In a way I feel off the hook.
What I miss more than the WIPs are my notes, because some of my story ideas had realistic potential and I have a memory like a sieve for things like that.
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Date: 2010-11-05 07:25 pm (UTC)Dad used his set to get things off my old laptop when it died.
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Date: 2010-11-05 07:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-11-06 01:19 am (UTC)You'll need to know what physical size the disk is and what kind of connector is on it (laptop drives are pretty standard, though). The advantage of that style of cable is that it has both sizes of connector on it, rather than just one of the two, so the cable that can transfer from a laptop drive can also do the same for the larger-sized traditional desktop drives.
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Date: 2010-11-06 06:12 am (UTC)That looks a lot like the harddisk readers I've seen on the shelf, except cheaper. It would be very convenient to be able to get at my old data both from the fried netbook and from my old desktop, and I'd even be able to use the old harddisks as extra storage.