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Originally Posted by Catlady
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.
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I think you may be quite right in that observation. A tangible, physical object is something that can be damaged or destroyed. You can actually see this happening. With digital files, that is (often) not the case.
The strange thing is, compared to physical products, the digital ones are SO easy to protect. Just copy everything to an external drive, put it somewhere safe (in someone else's house, for example), and you're basically done.
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Originally Posted by jgaiser
A lot of years ago, when I wasn't as obsessive about backups, I had a hard-drive crash. That crash caused the loss of hundreds of megabytes of photographs. I now backup my systems religiously. *Anybody* who thinks their hard-drive is going to last forever is eventually in for a sad suprise.
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Many of the things that are on my computer, I could actually get back again, even without making backups; most notably, my CD-albums. But having to re-rip hundreds of CD's AGAIN... I... aarrggghh.... Just thinking about it makes me want to kill myself.