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I feel like I should save and back up any pictures or music I want to keep onto a hard drive and maybe even have a few versions.
Annoyed that I havenāt done so already because itās a complete no brainer but life has basically been survival mode for a very long time and any kind of organisation has fallen by the wayside. Even now it seems like a mammoth task.
Physical media just seems like a sensible way to go. I envy the people who are organised and disciplined enough to āgo cavemanā, and also the people who can wrangle Linux.
While going through saving old pictures to my computer I found some of my old art. Doxable so I wonāt post it.
But how the hell is it better and more prolific than my art now? To be fair it was basically just copying pictures I liked but thereās some original stuff in there. And back then I didnāt have access to any of the resources I do now, no education on fundamentals other than some completely forgotten lessons as a kid, nothing. I didnāt know to do frames or shapes. I just did the contour lines and paid close attention to the space between them. The hands are a bit wonky but I drew hands wtf.
I guess itās just elbow grease. Which Iām currently so very short on š®āšØ
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Yeah I was surprised I even dared to go for it. I guess I hadnāt heard people saying it was hard so I wasnāt scared to try, and if it wasnāt good it was a skill issue so just try harder.
Thanks, I could use any tips. Iām still getting into the habit of backups and probably donāt know how to use a NAS.
Iāve got Google drive but my stuff is split over a few email addys and also I kinda donāt trust it not to fail :/
Iāve lost so much to crashes, been really slack. Sounds dumb because I managed to teach myself some stuff thatās more advanced and took a short course on computer repair trying to get up to speed. But due to a weird long term laziness Iām just not familiar or comfortable with the backup and restore processes which should be 101.
lol thatās all Greek to me but thanks, Iāve made a note to try and figure it out.
Basically it was my own lack of planning and consistency. I was too lazy or distracted to backup consistently, head full of whatever I was busy with, or gave/lent my backed-up-on-cd music collection to someone else I didnāt stay in contact with. Then my computer would get a virus or a component would break and that was it. Or I lost stuff in moves, or a hard drive I kept to try and salvage later got irreparably damaged in storage.
I still have some kept drives I might try to get data off when I figure out how to do it safely. I know there are a few ways of doing data recovery and I have at least once managed to get a computer going again with a bootable Linux usb just long enough to grab the important stuff. Iāve even used it to rescue scan and find viruses that hid from the AV. Another time I manually put the drive in a drive enclosure.
But with some it might still be risky. I know at least one forces you to enter your Microsoft password to log in (at least while in the computer) which I donāt want to do on a compromised device. I havenāt tried to see if the Linux usb can bypass that or if thatās guarded against. Iām also not sure if thereās any āprotectionsā against accessing data while the drive is out of the machine but I do know that stuff exists with some hard drives so we will see.
Anything I know about computers I had to teach myself, so despite trying to catch up thereās knowledge gaps and lack of experience with some things.
Idk the old drives arenāt urgent. I think for now Iāll focus on getting anything important and possibly time sensitive downloaded to local and then back it up to the hard drive I have, and the hard drives can wait til I have the brain space to deal with it.
Cheers, didnāt really get taught any of this. Haha no pr0n.exe downloads! Just past lack of education about net safety or didnāt shell out for good AV, or maybe forgot regular updates.
Most are various laptop drives within the 15 year old range. I forget what connections.
It happened to the desktop a few times but I just shelved the old drive for later retrieval, put in fresh drive and installed OS againā¦š¶ Seaview, maybe SATA. Replaced it with a SSD. Iād have to find it.
Fingers crossed thatās itās not the heads because thatās actual physical damage I think. But itās usually that something else broke, or there was something bad on there I didnāt trust I had the skills to completely clean.
Spare pc is a possibility, I just would have to back up and wipe an old laptop and Iām kind of struggling with day to day chores as is. Also it feels like wasting a pc by exposing a safe one if that makes sense?
(Also can you have separate backups on the same external drive? As in you can keep many different versions and from different computers without anything getting overwritten?
I think so but Iāve usually had to kind of just do a quick bandaid solution to get my computer going again, and have had fears of reinfecting by restoring data in the wrong way.)
I could buy a raspberry pi as theyāre cheap but I donāt know if I have the brain cells for the learning curve rn.
It should be ok. I just need to back up social media pics locally first, then grab the stuff from other cloud storage, and then back the computer/s up. (And try to grab contact info of establish an outside connection in case social media requires ID in like a year.) The drives are sitting there and hopefully wonāt get damaged or lost before I can get to them.
Thanks! Yeah it was very likely clicking a bad link and Iāll be more careful. I probably wonāt need the NAS setup and could do it manually