Just got back from a client where his ‘Data’ hard drive with his Photo library has an issue. But in haste, he had copied his library to his external hard drive, but now that has an issue, he has no backup!
Backing up should be at the top of your list when it comes to data, so make sure it’s all backed up and safe.
so hi there today I want to talk about
backing up and the mistakes I constantly
see with my clients data in their system
and so on I just got back from my client
and he had an issue he called and he
said he had an issue with not being able
to empty he has been on his computer but
also he had issues with his iPhoto
library but it comes down to well anyway
I just got back from him I went there
this morning it's now one o'clock
I've been there for a few hours and I've
been checking out his system and try to
figure out what the issue is I've
brought back his hard drive and this
hard drive was the issue the problem is
because he was trying to fix it himself
he's been copying his libraries and into
different hard drives and so on and now
we have several libraries but it all
actually started from updating his
operating system and I'm pretty certain
that updating your system and a hard
drive breaking they're just not related
they've happened at the same time or
something has manifested for a while and
it's just come to life after the update
they're kind of unrelated but anyway
this is his hard drive he's date he's so
if I photo library was on this and he
has an external hard drive which we
backed we set up a system where this and
his iMac backed up to his hard drive the
problem work is well there are several
problems but basically this hard drive
there was an error with it that's why he
couldn't empty he's been on his computer
the computers fine I won't go into the
technical parts of it but basically
every hard drive has a bin so if you
delete a file depending on where that
data is whichever hard drive it's in
it'll go to its bin so anyway when we
disconnected this is it's been was empty
so I knew there was a problem with this
but you're getting - 36 errors which is
Hardware Arizona
could be software errors as well so
we're gonna check that out but what I
was Watling but what I actually wanted
to talk about was when you backup you
have to make sure that your data is in
more than one place what he had done he
had put his light had taken the library
off of this actually in a way thank
goodness he's put it on to his external
backup hard drive and he was working for
as his backup hard drive was a faster
Drive now if he hadn't done that he
could have lost the data but that's a
separate issue so the fact that if if
everything is working you have this
drive and your backup you take the data
from here and put on your backup drive
from work where is your backup it isn't
anywhere you've a backup should be in
more than one place ideally three places
but if it's in two places great so if
you've taken data from a drive and put
it on your backup drive to work from
that is not being backed up some people
then say to me well you know I do it
manually and I back it up to the cloud
and whatever the problem is manually I
get this problem all the time is that
you will forget you always forget you
will constantly forget and this is
experience talking I I see it I hear it
all the time I was just about to back up
when was the last last backup three
months ago who's at fault here the
computer are you may sound harsh but
it's your fault if you're not backing up
if you're not learning a computer backup
and do its thing so if a system has been
set up for you please leave it we're
doing it for your own benefit not for
our benefit or for anything else is your
benefit because you'll be losing your
Feroze anyway I'm gonna go and check
this hard drive to figure out what's
wrong with it I'm gonna remote into this
computer to make sure what he has backed
up and things that are missing he's also
checking there now
so again make sure your data is backed
up in more than one place otherwise you
could lose your data and photos are the
biggest loss for anybody I mean work
data is be a big loss but photos it's a
big loss I've been in a house fire
before when I was a kid and we lost a
ton of photos when I was a kid do I have
any photos not that much it's it's a
it's a big [ __ ] basically anyway have
a great day have a great weekend
it's Friday I'll see you on Monday and
as always keep it simple and make sure
you backup okay take care ciao bye-bye