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Originally Posted by Katsunami
I often find this very strange. People religiously protect their physical stuff: special cases for photo camera's and lenses, safes for important papers, and so on. At the same time, they may have digital stuff that is possibly worth much more than any physical items they have, and they don't spend even a moment's thought on how to protect it.
I know quite some people who spend a great deal of time caring for their $500 Canon photo camera "because it was so expensive", but they don't think twice about backing up the 5000 pictures they took with it. It's as if they assume that if a picture is on the hard drive, it will be there forever. Strangely enough, the older photo albums, made before the time of digital camera's, are in a safe.
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It may be strange, but it's the way it is.
I think it's because you can't see the computer files as tangible items. You can see the pile of photos in a box, and that reminds you to do something about sorting them or storing them properly, or whatever. I don't think that it's that people have faith that digital items will last forever as much as that people don't get reminded of their existence.