So I blame Spool Photography for my latest bad luck. After he wrote a post about how does eveyone back up their photos I started to see some funny things happening with my brand spanking new laptop. Like a true IT professional I ignored it for about a week, but the past few days things were getting worse and worse. Yesterday I did a Family Portrait for some good friends and at the end of the shoot copied all the files across to the laptop and then couldn’t open Photoshop. I already back up everything on a ‘regular’ 3 monthly basis so I ran off and grabbed the external USB hard drive that I had for backups. 5 mins after the back up completed the hard drive in the laptop died a miserable death.
Talk about lucky!!!
Jamie Paterson
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It wasn’t a mac was it?
Yeah ,
Iv started to back up more regulary now and the price of external hard drives has dropped so much . A few years back had my motherboard crash on one of my machines and it was running a Sata raid of 3 hard drives and i hadnt backed any thing up had about 2 terra bits worth of stuff on there
Lucky for me a friend had file scavanger and i was able to retrive a lot of stuff , but took a while . After that I back up quite regulary now
Cant blame me been totally out of action with the flu …. 😉
Hi Dylan,
No it was a Dell laptop. Fortunately, they have now replaced the hard drive and I’m copying everything back onto it now.
Jamie Paterson