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That day I accidentally deleted my entire project file 3 hours before upload
I was cleaning up old drafts and hit delete on the wrong folder without checking the trash. Ever since then I keep a manual backup on a USB stick I hide in my desk drawer.
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charles_kelly431mo ago
Man I did something similar back in college, lost my entire thesis draft two days before it was due. Ended up pulling an all nighter rewriting it from memory and some notes I had scrawled on napkins. That USB stick trick works until you lose it, happens to me every six months or so. Now I just use Google Drive with version history, saved my butt more times than I can count. Still keep a physical copy of important stuff on an external hard drive though, can't trust the cloud completely.
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blairtaylor1mo ago
Right? Nothing worse than that sinking feeling when you realize your only copy is gone. @charles_kelly43 you're dead on about version history being a lifesaver though. I had a client file get corrupted last year and Google Drive let me roll it back to the day before the mess happened. But I hear you on not fully trusting the cloud either. I do the same thing with an external drive plus a second copy on a different cloud service. It's overkill until it saves your skin.
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