Comments on: Close Fucking Shave

By: Drunk Country

Drunk Country — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:54:15 +0000

Sod the bloody music (well, not really, but there’s a point…) a year & a half ago I had just signed a deal with a publishers for my first book when, overloaded, old, with a weak operating system, my hard drive imploded (so much so it wouldn’t even recognise the CD or A drives existed).

On my computer was the entire manuscript with (stupid, stupid, stupid) absolutely no back-up & no paper copies (the publisher had the only one at that time & I was dreading asking if I could ‘borrow’ it back so I could *gulp* re-type the bloody thing from scratch. Why I never backed it up I’ll never know.

Anyway, I took the thing to one of the specialists that love dealing with the ‘twat in charge of a computer’ & had them dig about until they eventually recovered the manuscript.

That was a week with my stomach in my mouth & my heart in my arse.

I now own a handful of 2GB-8GB memory sticks & back-up every month. Sony do an excellent (& very reasonably priced) 2GB Micro Vault Tiny USB (which has the capacity to squeeze in 6GB:

I paid $24/£12 for one when I was in the States last. I recommend everyone get some.

By: mjrc

mjrc — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 02:42:00 +0000

well, a hard drive can usually be resurrected, or partially resurrected. i had a hard drive failure about a year ago and my husband was able to recover a lot of music, but every once in a while i go to look for something and it’s not there, and i realize it was something lost in the crash. very sad.

even after all that, though, i still don’t back up like i should. i’m sure i’m courting disaster. : )

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 01:07:06 +0000

I dinnae do iPods. I am too sulky about anything so successful (this makes me an idiot doesn’t it?) so I never bought one. But I think I may be okay anyhow. A hard drive can always be resurrected.

By: wendy

wendy — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 01:02:16 +0000

if you put any of it on an iPod, you can get it back using a program called iPodRip. This saved me a number of years back.

By: Ross

Ross — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:14:53 +0000

Ohhhh, lucky you…it’ts right lame when you loose all yr tunes. Happened to me a few months ago, so i bought a new hard drive and loads of ram, everything is back to normal now. There should be support groups for bloggers who loose there internet / mp3s / tunes etc.. hee hee!!

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:14:48 +0000

Considering how long the whole thing went entirely un-backed up I am horrified. Mind you, people can usually recover the data for you, but a scary fucking prospect nonetheless.

By: crash

crash — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:11:47 +0000

Something very similar has just happened to me, and luckily enough it happened the day after I’d worked out how to back everything up realy simply and so had got sorted. It really doesn’t bear thinking about. Do this now, people.