And Mark should really start ***backing up*** his email files and the *.wab
Windows Adress book too
or if he switches to Outlook, the *.pst files.... and of course the rest.
greetings Markus
You are right and I have absolutely no excuse. The whole reason why the files are in an easily accessible directory is to back them up, and I have another computer with 50 gigs of back up space networked right to this one...
... and the last backup I did was in September... my own indolence.
In my own defense, though - I do generate a lot of stuff to be backed up, and running the 15 - 20 gigs needed through the network connection takes a big chunk of time. I have email, correspondence and other writing, my website (which I copy to in total to a new directory every month, and then update), etc.No counting image files, I wind up with a huge amount of documents that need to be backed up.
But - all the more reason to actually _do_ the backups.... :-[
- MCC
PS: On the subject of backing up images, I do have a better system. First, I copy from the CF card to the XDrive, and then copy from the XDrive to a hard drive.After editing etc, the images I want to keep are copied into another directory.Then I burn a DVD with all my digital files - keepers and non-keepers on it. Then I burn another DVD with just the keepers. And only after both DVD's have been thumbnailed (i.e. - yes, they can be read) do I delete them from the hard drive and the XDrive.
In theory I have two copies of all the shots I want to keep.
I also create further redundant DVD's / Cd's for projects. So I have a few DVD's with the stuff I sell at art fairs - not just the source files but the actual print files. I update those every year, and roll the old stuff onto the DVD's. So if disk goes bad, I probably have a copy of an image on it. And if someone says "I saw a neat shot here last year that you don;t have any more..." I can usually get at it, if they can describe it reasonably well. Similarly, when I do a show I gather together all the files I print and put then on one CD or DVD. I also burn 'current project' CD's so if someone want to look at bee photos, for example, and I pull together a few dozen, those then go on another DVD or CD. Ultimately, the images I use the most get copied the most - so I feel secure that there is a sufficient backup.
In the rare cases where I do something directly for a client - like the few weddings I reluctantly do - the digital files go right onto a DVD unprocessed, immediately. Then I do two burns of the final product and work files when editing is done.
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Mark Cassino Photography
Kalamazoo, MI
www.markcassino.com
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Markus Maurer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 6:33 PM
Subject: RE: MX OUtlook Express Question
-----Original Message----- From: Shel Belinkoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 11:42 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Mark Cassino Subject: Re: MX OUtlook Express Question
Mark ... just a shot in the dark here: have you tried a system restore?
Shel
