sriddle1
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- Apr 2, 2014
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Well, Learned a hard lesson yesterday :smiley_aafz:............I was on another site, configured much like Tractor-By-Net, posted a simple PDF File and WHAM-MOE ..........My Lenovo Hardware Monitoring Software give me an alert "Repairing Hard Drive"....O'Boy....and then, can't logon..... Long story short, lost my entire 2016 User Folder that contains, Outlook Emails, Outlook Contacts/Address Book, Internet Explorer Favorites, Pictures, Day-to-Day Documents, etc. I quickly purchased one of those data recovery products and was only able to and retrieved 1/10th the information. :thumbdown:
The only Saving Grace in this debacle, I keep my individual folders named by year, i.e. 2016 followed by the subject e.g., "2016 - Tractorbynet". Each year in late December I burn those folders to (3) individual DVDs, two for the house and one for the Safety Deposit Box just-in-case. As someone who has worked in the IT Industry I should have set-up a routine to back-up that User Folder Directory say every 4 weeks or so, just didn't get to it since purchasing a new PC in January :irked: and now I've lost over 300 Pictures of Family & Friends + countless emails, outlook contacts, documents and the list goes on, not a good thing.
So as you read this, think about all the information you have on your PC that makes our day-to-day lives simpler then think about the steps you're taking just-in-case your hard drive fails..............
The only Saving Grace in this debacle, I keep my individual folders named by year, i.e. 2016 followed by the subject e.g., "2016 - Tractorbynet". Each year in late December I burn those folders to (3) individual DVDs, two for the house and one for the Safety Deposit Box just-in-case. As someone who has worked in the IT Industry I should have set-up a routine to back-up that User Folder Directory say every 4 weeks or so, just didn't get to it since purchasing a new PC in January :irked: and now I've lost over 300 Pictures of Family & Friends + countless emails, outlook contacts, documents and the list goes on, not a good thing.
So as you read this, think about all the information you have on your PC that makes our day-to-day lives simpler then think about the steps you're taking just-in-case your hard drive fails..............