whine with my cheese

[tracyblankenship]

PSA. back up. NOW,l ol

My name is Tracy and I am a procrastinator.

and I have paid

I am having the WORST week ever. I mean in a LONG time. nothing is going right. won't get into it, but holy crap this is enough.

then I got a shock this morning. My ehd won't work. we have tried everything we can think of. I lost EVERYTHING I have made in the last two or three months. all the templates I have made. and stuff I have bought for like 5 months. sigh. trying to get it all reactivated now.

someone suggested putting it in the freezer. I searched and found that it actually has worked for some. has anyone here tried it.

ok...done whining. going to go do some challenges now,lol:p

[tuneskids]

aw Tracy, I feel your pain (although I don't design. lol). My laptop got a corrupted file downloaded to it and I couldn't access anything until my loving husband played and played and played with it ... finally I can access stuff, finally burned everything to back it up.

[Traci Reed]

uuuugh

I've never heard of the freezer thing...good luck!

[my4boys]

Wow, I am sorry that happened to you...I hope everything works out for you and your HD...I have also heard the freezer thing but never had to try it (knock on wood)

[jorgies5]

Sorry you are going through this. Haven't heard of the freezer thing either. But thanks for the reminder to back up - it has been a while for me. Hope you can get it fixed. Keep us updated!

[Hom74]

Ugh - oh that hurts. It couldn't hurt to try the freezer, right? I've never tried it but I have seen others mention it. Though if you do get it to work after freezing it...I'd recommend transferring as much over as you can!

[ditzyscrap]

Thanks for the reminder! Now that I've got high speed, I need to do an online backup!

[joelsgirl]

Man, that stinks! I hope the freezer thing works. I'm going to buy some DVDs today and back up my layouts. I'd HATE to lose those!

[ColleenSwerb]

UGH! I'm so sorry Tracy.

I REALLY need to sign up for online backup. I think I'll just do it now.....

[Sue Setiadji]

you've sure had a tough week - not heard of freezing either - makes me wander who thought to try that one out! Hope it works for you! Would be interested to hear the outcome - best of luck with it!

[scrappychic]

That sucks! Sorry to hear that, that's one of my biggest fears. Hope things start looking up for you!

[Leila]

Ugh! That really sucks, Tracy!! I'd be wary of the freezer idea because of possible water damage from thaw out condensation. Just not something I'd be willing to try. :confused:

[newfiemountiewife]

Tracy, that sucks! I have heard the freezer works for some, it's worth a shot, right?

I hope you can get it all sorted. I did a major back up to my EHD a couple of weeks ago from my hard drive, but I never really feel safe for some reason.

My pal Katrina recommends Mozy, she lost her EHD and was able to get back a lot of her stuff that way. I'm planning to sign up, but the only time I remember is when someone has a crash.

Let us know if the freezer works!

[ditzyscrap]

My pal Katrina recommends Mozy, she lost her EHD and was able to get back a lot of her stuff that way. I'm planning to sign up, but the only time I remember is when someone has a crash.
I just signed up for it myself...well I did a few weeks ago but couldn't back up on dialup, lol. So I re-signed up. :) Anyway, the nice thing is that it's automatic...it backs up every night any new files that it detects on your system. :) No need to remember, just tell it where to look for the files.

[Stacey42]

I wanted to sign up for Mozy & then my DH reminded me we have a monthly upload limit of 10GB. :( Between my photos, my scrap stuff, my music & audiobooks, I have 100GBs of stuff. It would take almost all year for me to upload it all, or I'd pay some huge fees for going over my limit.

I just stick with my second EHD and DVDs for now. hhmm... I haven't backed stuff up in 6 weeks or so. I probably ought to get cuaght up.

[MyEbella]

i use mozy and yeah almost completely finished w/ the initial backup... I have tons so it is taking forever

good luck retreiving stuff!!!

[ColleenSwerb]

I talked to my computer geek penny pinching fiancee, lol. He'd rather I just ghost my EHD to one of his hard drives (his desktop has 2 and oodles of space). So I'm going that route for now.....

[Amy Carey]

Bumping this up to see if Tracy had any luck. Thanks for the PSA though, I did back up last night before I went to bed. I got soooo blessed last week in that a friend of mine GAVE me a 300 GIG EHD. He thought that it would just magically back his stuff up for him every day and when he didn't he decided he didn't need it :thumbup: so my gain for sure!

Tracy I really hope you were able to salvage your stuff!

[pbumbaca]

WOW That totally stinks! I hope you were able to recover your stuff.

The freezer? Really? Weird.

I almost lost my last portable EHD and bought a new one when it started acting funny. I also have a non-portable one, I use that as my back up and I double back up to DVD because I am that paranoid! As a matter of fact I think it's time to do a backup! It always takes these kinds of posts to remind me!

[jaylensmom]

tracy i hope you were able to find a solution...

i may have to try mozy...one of my goals this year is to get all my stuff organized & backed up...

[Rae's World]

I have got to remember to back things up!!!! I am soo horrible. I did buy an EHD but I guess that is not fool proof either!