Tuesday, April 6

Crash & Burn

There are two kinds of people:  those who've had their hard drive crash, and those who will.

Are your photos (and other important files) just sitting on your computer hard drive waiting for a crash to wipe them out possibly forever?  I hope that you answered no, you have them backed up to another hard drive or on disks.  External hard drives are so inexpensive these days!  You can get a HUGE amount of storage (2TB) for under $150. 

Consider just your photos.  What do they document? 
A favorite trip?  A wedding?  A graduation?  The birth of a child?
Any one of these probably had an investment on your part of WAY more than $150.  Your photos and the memories associated with them are priceless.  Back them up to disc, hard drive or an online photo sharing site such as the Creative Memories Digital Center.

I use Memory Manager to organize my digital images, scanned items, videos & music files.  The "Shadow Copy" feature automatically backs up my "vault" of the above items every time I use it.  I set it up once, and forget about it.  It's automatic - got to love that!