Honestly as I think about it, I would survive a computer crash except for one thing – my pictures. I have all of our digital pictures on my computer, so if it failed and I lost all of my personal pictures, I would be heartbroken. Many of the pictures of my two kids might be replaced from other sources as I’ve copied disks to give to family members, but the most recent pictures would be lost. This would bother me the most.
If my computer failed, I would miss all of the documents but they can be replaced or rewritten for the most part – not fun, but definitely survivable. As far as work is concerned, I’ve started using Dropbox when I create work on my laptop that is to be used at school. That way I don’t have to worry about saving to a jump drive and transferring documents. Even my favorites have been modified to utilize Diigo so I can get to them anywhere I have internet access. I just perused my personal documents and found many outdated and unnecessary files that need to be cleared out but there are a few items that I would consider irreplaceable.
All in all, I would survive a computer crash – not happily and with some irreplaceable pictures and a few documents gone forever. There would be a considerable amount of time and many headaches associated with recovering from the crash, but why tempt fate that way when there are so many options to circumvent the inevitable? My husband just picked up an external hard drive with 320GB – more than enough to back up both of our work computers and personal computers. Now, to become disciplined enough to make saving to an external drive part of the process of turning off a computer...
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Yes rewriting the documents would be survivable, but way to time consuming I would imaging. I try and back up like once a semester. That way I always know I have a starting point. Doesn't take to long, be thankful, I have 4 computers that I have to back up and keep in line.
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