Paul,
Sorry to hear of your data loss. After working with computers for 30 years
(and losing some data), I've learned to back up my data. And not just 1
copy. Best bet is a minimum of 2 backups stored in separate places. I
recommend backing up all new pictures on your PC daily to a CD-RW.
For PC newbies - rewriteable CD via CD-ROM burner. Drag and drop files just
like you do to a hard disk drive. Better yet, drag entire folders for the
copy process. Then perhaps once a week, copy the entire CD-RW to a CD-R
(write-once media) and tag the CD-R so you can read it on any CD reader.
Over time you'll have multiple archive copies that can be read on any
machine with a CD reader. The CD-ROM burners are very inexpensive and the
media even more so. Oh, if something better than CD-R's come along be sure
to transfer everything over to the new media! I still have stuff on punched
tape and analog tape that are unreadable just 25 years later.
I'll take a look and see if I have any of your photos. I may have downloaded
a few, as your pictures of your roadster work are awesome/perfection.
Fred - So.SF
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pam & Paul Bauman" <plhbauman@earthlink.net>
To: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 8:26 AM
Subject: good news, bad news
> Good news:
> The car is doing fine and it is Solvang here we come! Apart from a couple
> dings in the paintjob (my fault) and a work slowdown due to the flu (not
my
> fault), as Phil Hall might say, everything is go :)
>
> The bad news:
> Made arrangements to put together a new PC. Getting a real screamer, too.
> However, my old PC did not take this news well. She crashed over the
weekend
> and I lost my email address book and, worst of all, most of my digital
> photos of the restore. I didn't archive them in time.
>
> Take my sad tale as a warning--back up your digital photos often! It is so
> easy to think of a digital camera as nothing more than a film camera
without
> the film development hassles.Well, I'm here to tell you they are not the
> same thing at all! I have the photos I took with the SLR and the Polaroid,
> but not much else.
>
> BTW, if any of you have a pic or two you downloaded from my Photopoint
site,
> I'd appreciate it if you would send me a copy.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Paul Bauman
> Westminster, CA
> 67 1600
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