A Lesson Learned

Flash drives and flash memory are among the best things that could have been invented for computers. Not only is it small and portable but there's a crap load of space to hold files as well. Floppies have gone the way of the dodo bird and CD can be too much of a pain to carry and burn and re-burn all the time hence flash memory is a very convenient way to carry stuff around especially if you are at all like me working on a multitude of computers each day.

One thing to be aware of with flash... don't' put all your eggs in one basket... have your current versions of your files somewhere else on a hard drive, on CD anywhere else in addition to your flash.

Today I almost lost an entire semester's worth of homework, notes and projects along with my precious portfolio project. I now have what I've done on a CD and will also be putting it on both my desktop hard drive and my external drive as well. You see, my computer decided to no longer recognize some of the files on my flash drive and I thought I'd lost everything but after it was unplugged and plugged in once more everything showed back up. Why it did this is still a mystery but I now have one more trick in my bag for trying to recover files.

My next step is to look into using the briefcase feature of Windows or some other file cloning software that updates the copies whenever I do something to them.... it might save me time and aggravation in the long run as well since I have a horribly bad habit of forgetting where I saved something or which copy I want to use to work with.

No matter what the lesson learned today is to back up and save often no matter what your methods might be!

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