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and Barbie is the Goddess of Gaia Guild starting since she gave all the Purkles a place to find one another rofl

My heartbreaker was after we moved to a house in Albuquerque from an apartment, we had also recently switched from Windows 98 (full of crashes) to Windows 2000 (much more stable), and with the lack of blue screens, freeze-ups, and crashes, I forgot to do backups because I didn't think anything would be lost. But then our whole harddrive crashed, and I lost all my saved files and my most recent backup was from 7 or 8 months prior. I lost all the works in progress and the originals of Mystaisha's beauty contest entry, for which she won a Silver Trophy. I lost Jade's word files of all her progress and cute stuff she did in her first few months of life. I lost over 20,000 saved neopets images. I worked hard over the next 4 months to resave and recatagorize all the neopets images, and probably did an even more thorough job because I found some archive sites that had stuff I'd never had before! But yeah, I made sure to keep regular backups after that. Right now though, stuff is being backed up to a second harddrive in my computer, and if the computer is stolen, or say, the house burns down, the backups are gone too, so yesterday Jason mentioned he could burn it all to DVD and we could take a copy over to my mom's.

Oh no!!!! crying That's what I worry about.. the fact that ALL our pictures of Jade are digital, and even if we back them up to CD, we have SO MANY burned CD's everywhere, I don't even know what's what, and CD's can't last forever.. And our camcord tapes have started to go bad, so Jason's trying to burn THOSE to DVD too, but the one we can't get to play is I think Jade's VERY FIRST newborn camcord! crying

Oh, and I forgot about the heartbreak of my personal webpages getting deleted due to inactivity, and I had nothing backed up!

butterfly doesnt like the month of december all too well...seems like a lot of bad things happen to her during that month rolleyes

sounds like you ladies need to start printing some of your pics off 3nodding

Just find where you keep your important personal files, like word documents, or saved pictures, or even saved games from anything you install and play on your computer, like.. I dunno, Warcraft, or Unreal Tournament, if you play cd-rom games at all, and if you don't want to start over, which usually I don't care whether I start over... and maybe export your bookmarks somewhere if you don't want to lose those. And then depending on how much space all of this takes, copy the files to something like a floppy disk, or zip disk, or cd-r or dvd-r, or another harddrive if you have two in your computer, or to another computer if you're networked to another.

There are programs that do backups for you at scheduled times. Mine is under Accessories -> System Tools, and I don't know if it came default on my computer or not, but it lets me pick and choose what I want to backup, and when, and to where.