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Thread ID: 146380	2018-07-17 05:10:00	Do people really care about their own files?	Nomad (952)	PC World Chat

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1451689	2018-07-17 05:10:00	People should know they should backup their files . Do people really care if they lose their files? At the moment they might care, but what about over time? Someone had a iPhone 6 Plus, touchscreen went wonky, they bought a Android and we found that iCloud might not had been enabled . Luckily I think the touchscreen kinda works but not that very well . They don't do backups . These are files of their new born . Also with their other phones, and other computers . Backup is just never carried out . You tell them but they still don't do anything . They might have a external hard drive, but it's probably not used regularly and don't know what they do when they get a new computer - as in what happens to their old drive . :)	Nomad (952)
1451690	2018-07-17 05:22:00	The trouble with a question like this there is no single answer to it. Yes some people care, no some people don't care. Many like me care but only a bit. I back up anything that really matters to me, but I don't try that hard. If I lose it all I'll be annoyed, but it's not the end of the world.	dugimodo (138)
1451691	2018-07-17 05:27:00	Do people really care if they lose their files? :) Well going by the number of people I have met screaming with rage, or sobbing their eyes out, in my workshop, they seem to care a lot when you are not able to retrieve them for them. sadly most learn the hard way and don't listen to advice to backup before it happens.	piroska (17583)
1451692	2018-07-17 05:32:00	Well going by the number of people I have met screaming with rage, or sobbing their eyes out, in my workshop, they seem to care a lot when you are not able to retrieve them for them. sadly most learn the hard way and don't listen to advice to backup before it happens. But going forward do they take your advice? I spend some time with Teamviewer remote accessing it while on the telephone telling them to plug phone in, allow trusted device etc... Still working on it, so I said bring it over. They say it can wait they already have a new phone hahah.	Nomad (952)
1451693	2018-07-17 06:51:00	Like hell I'm losing my collection of photos. :p	pcuser42 (130)
1451694	2018-07-17 08:05:00	Back our files up weekly, that is enough for us, backed to to various portable drives kept in a separate building	gary67 (56)
1451695	2018-07-17 10:13:00	Just make sure the filing cabinet is locked while you're away. For the OTHER sort of files, always make sure each file has a good handle, firmly attached.	R2x1 (4628)
1451696	2018-07-17 11:13:00	Most non tech people would struggle to know what a file is ...	Ofthesea (14129)
1451697	2018-07-17 21:50:00	But going forward do they take your advice? Well the ones that did all the crying and/or screaming did. I checked.	piroska (17583)
1451698	2018-07-17 22:00:00	Many buy a single USB Hard drive, then store everything on that. Drive fails, data & photos lost. No backup. Then in desperation, they keep trying to read data off the drive. And cases where the read head is broken, all they are doing is scratching up the platters making data recovery impossible. Ive seen that often. Data would have been recoverable IF they had simply turned off & gone straight to recovery experts. I had one chap loose 3 years of work (writing a book) because he was saving to a single floppy drive. :eek: Ive had a corporate not backing up a server as they didnt want to spend $100 on even a single backup HD. Many people use a single USB memory stick (the worst choice for backup or data storage) . They learn the hard way. People and corporates buy a NAS to store everything, then wont spend $100 on the USB drive to backup the NAS And most never test the backup or check backup logs People do care about their data, they are just too lazy, tight, or stupid to protect it.	1101 (13337)
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