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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
She had it backed up to a USB stick (or thought she did). Unfortunately, something went badly wrong and it was not recoverable. She's not very computer savvy...
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I can't tell you how many people I have encountered that have had this problem.
"I backed up all my photo's, music.... and there's nothing on the DVD / HDD!"
- "Where were your pictures stored?"
"In Picasa."
- "No, I mean, where on the hard drive? Which folder?"
"Folder?..... What?"
- "Oh no... let me look at that DVD / HDD."
And what do I invariably find? Burned or copied shortcuts to Picasa, Winamp, Media Player, shortcuts pointing to folders on the now dead hard drive... such a Music folder shortcut that was on the desktop, that sort of thing.
It never occurs to those people that burning or copying multiple gigabytes of data (if they can understand the concept of "size of data" in the first place) should take longer than 2 seconds.