=?UTF-8?Q?J=c3=b6rg_=22Yadgar=22_Bleimann?= <yaz### [at] gmxde> wrote:
> ...but then I accidentally deleted all *png files in the POVnroll
> project directory - and among them also the level 1 mosaic, cumbersomely
> screen-copied from the Amiga emulator! So I will not be able to resume
> my work, unless I do it all over again! Perhaps not all - a partial
> version of it is on my friend's harddisk, but I have to phone him to
> e-mail it to me, he does not regularly check his e-mail...

Take backups!  Take backups!  Take frequent backups!

And be sure to back them up to a different device--another hard disk, the cloud,
something.  One POVer did his backups to the same disk, and lost every single
one of his scene files.  All of them.  GONE.

I have had my hard disk crash *twice*.  I'm sold on external backups.

I once accidentally erased my user directory after getting my working
directories mixed up.  I'm sold on external backups.

Can't afford an external hard disk?  Live on sandwiches for a month.  It's worth
it.

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