Learn from my mistake

[Shykiran]

We all say we are gonna do it, but it gets put off and put off and we end up NOT backing up our data.

I just lost all my logs, custom emotes, maps, housefiles, 2nd character submission information, description, songs, custom clothing. ZMUD licenses, email, copys of MudMail, books I had written in game,.. and in affect every sinlge threshfile, photo that I had

Stop what you are doing AND BACKUP YOUR DATA NOW

oh and dont drink near your laptop

[Rosuav]

I'm still hopeful you can recover that hard drive, Shy. But nonetheless - yes, let this remind people: BACK UP!!

I am as guilty as anyone else. My Thresh stuff hadn't been backed up to this day. As of now, it will. So yeah... I've been dumb (well, careless really).

[Savaric]

I never back up anything. There's never been anything on my computer that I can't do without.

This stems fom one core reason: I do not trust computers!

One of my friends recently got the blue screen of death (I know it was a virus, but he says otherwise). He operates his pc without updated virus protections. I've tried in the past to give him pc advice (simple stuff that saves headaches), but he has his own ideas on how things work.

Sorry you lost your stuff.

Do laptops have cooling fans in them? My friends gets pretty hot in your lap.

[Rosuav]

Originally posted by Savaric
This stems fom one core reason: I do not trust computers!

Why not? What is it you don't trust? And, perhaps more to the point, what is it you DO trust? If you don't trust computers so you always print things out and keep the hard copies, those hard copies ARE your backup. I personally burn things to CD. Those CDs are my backups. It's all the same thing, in a way.

Do laptops have cooling fans in them? My friends gets pretty hot in your lap.

Yes, they do. A couple of possibilities here...
1) It's not sufficiently hot to be worth cooling yet, but you happen to have stuck the CPU right near bare skin. It'll feel hot.
2) You have a fan, but it's faulty. Try running the computer really hot (a thorough RAM test would do it), and see if it freezes/reboots. You should hear a fan come on at some point.

There are some fanless laptops, but most have one decent fan to cool CPU, mainboard, devices, and all.

[Xar]

I just handwrite in block-form calligraphy all the neat logs, stories, art, and writings in the game. As for collected pictures and such, I make sure I break out the old paintbrush and make hard copies on canvas a la Bob Ross (MHRIP).

Hehe, no, in all seriousness, I backed what I could up on CD every so often, since it's cheap to do, and called it the "thresh" CD. As for emails and such, they're mostly on my work system and my company has offsite storage strategies all in place. I'd hate to lose them, since it still has the original thresh mailing list emails.

Sorry for your loss though, I know that has to suck