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Originally Posted by Katsunami
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.
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I remember hearing a story from back in the old 'floppy' disk days. This secretary couldn't figure out why floppies she used in the computer weren't working right. The repair guy even took the drive to pieces in an effort to figure out what was wrong. Still, it didn't work right. So he had her go through the steps for him so he could see what she did.
1. Burn data to disk
2. Put label on disk
3. Roll disk into typewriter and type info on label
4. Take disk out of typewriter and put it into drive where it 'mysteriously' failed to read the data