(08-02-2011 07:57 AM)Detroit Dan Wrote: [ -> ]My laptop broke. (OK, I had a few beers and dropped it in the kitchen sink) Fortunately there was no water in it. All my New York pictures are on it. It's just the display that is broke so the pictures are safe but it's killing me that I don't have them. I'm a freak about backing up and burning disks of everything, but I didn't save these yet.
Going insane
I know what you mean. I have found that those little usb thumb drives are great for backing up pictures easily and quickly, easier anyway than burning a disc. I have an 8 GB one, and as soon as I get the pictures from the camera onto the computer, they go on the usb drive too. Plus those little drives are getting really cheap now. And easy to slip into your pocket and take to a friends house to show the pictures.
But how to get your pictures when you can't use the display? Some laptops have a video out jack, and you can hook it to a TV and use that as a monitor. Maybe would work to get your pictures?
Congrats on the Iron Man finish by the way.
(08-02-2011 08:34 AM)Rey Wrote: [ -> ] (08-02-2011 07:57 AM)Detroit Dan Wrote: [ -> ]My laptop broke. (OK, I had a few beers and dropped it in the kitchen sink) Fortunately there was no water in it. All my New York pictures are on it. It's just the display that is broke so the pictures are safe but it's killing me that I don't have them. I'm a freak about backing up and burning disks of everything, but I didn't save these yet.
Going insane
I know what you mean. I have found that those little usb thumb drives are great for backing up pictures easily and quickly, easier anyway than burning a disc. I have an 8 GB one, and as soon as I get the pictures from the camera onto the computer, they go on the usb drive too. Plus those little drives are getting really cheap now. And easy to slip into your pocket and take to a friends house to show the pictures.
But how to get your pictures when you can't use the display? Some laptops have a video out jack, and you can hook it to a TV and use that as a monitor. Maybe would work to get your pictures?
Congrats on the Iron Man finish by the way.
Just watch out for those flash drives, Rey. We have had a few that stopped working and couldn't retrieve anything from them. That is why we went to the external hard drive. They are good for transferring info, but as for long term storage I would be careful.
(08-02-2011 08:26 AM)RN-PRN Wrote: [ -> ]One question Dan...why were you holding your laptop over the kitchen sink??? Thankfully it is only the screen that broke. Ken bought us an external hard drive that we back everything up on..pics, music, my school stuff, etc. Truthfully, I just backed up my school folder onto the hard drive. I would be screwed if I lost all of that stuff (papers, ppts, etc).
I was at the other house. That kitchen is tiny. The laptop was open next to the sink. I turned around and boink, it flipped over and in.
(08-02-2011 08:58 AM)Detroit Dan Wrote: [ -> ] (08-02-2011 08:26 AM)RN-PRN Wrote: [ -> ]One question Dan...why were you holding your laptop over the kitchen sink??? Thankfully it is only the screen that broke. Ken bought us an external hard drive that we back everything up on..pics, music, my school stuff, etc. Truthfully, I just backed up my school folder onto the hard drive. I would be screwed if I lost all of that stuff (papers, ppts, etc).
I was at the other house. That kitchen is tiny. The laptop was open next to the sink. I turned around and boink, it flipped over and in.
Ouch...hope you can retrieve your pics and everything off of it without too much trouble.
(08-02-2011 08:42 AM)RN-PRN Wrote: [ -> ]Just watch out for those flash drives, Rey. We have had a few that stopped working and couldn't retrieve anything from them. That is why we went to the external hard drive. They are good for transferring info, but as for long term storage I would be careful.
Really! I didn't know that they can fail like that. I have had spinning hard drives that failed too. Even my early burned CD's, the first ones that came out, many of them don't work now. I do think long term storage in the digital age is a problem. Just about everything can fail over time.
(08-02-2011 08:34 AM)Rey Wrote: [ -> ] (08-02-2011 07:57 AM)Detroit Dan Wrote: [ -> ]My laptop broke. (OK, I had a few beers and dropped it in the kitchen sink) Fortunately there was no water in it. All my New York pictures are on it. It's just the display that is broke so the pictures are safe but it's killing me that I don't have them. I'm a freak about backing up and burning disks of everything, but I didn't save these yet.
Going insane
I know what you mean. I have found that those little usb thumb drives are great for backing up pictures easily and quickly, easier anyway than burning a disc. I have an 8 GB one, and as soon as I get the pictures from the camera onto the computer, they go on the usb drive too. Plus those little drives are getting really cheap now. And easy to slip into your pocket and take to a friends house to show the pictures.
But how to get your pictures when you can't use the display? Some laptops have a video out jack, and you can hook it to a TV and use that as a monitor. Maybe would work to get your pictures?
Congrats on the Iron Man finish by the way.
I did hook it up to a second monitor. That's how I figured out that the display had issues. I should have burned my pictures right then and there. I took it in for repairs now they have all my pictures.
I also use a USB drive for convince, but not as a secure lifetime storage device.
Namo! Where hast thou been?
