Mum took about 100 photos of her recent trip to Yunan w/ my Canon A40. I downloaded the files and burnt a CD for her viewing pleasure on her DVD player. Then I wiped the files because I needed the disk space.
She didn’t want to mess w/ the DVD player, and wanted prints instead. Lily chewed up the CD… She was quite upset. Good thing I have a backup of her photos on CD.
Do your multiple backups regularly.
2 responses so far ↓
1 James Mok // Dec 27, 2003 at 11:50 am
Dad at 67 years of age and his DC not only has zero backup, he has zero originals with just a 256MB + a 16MB CF card. He just prints the photos out with a flash card printer without a computer. I offered to backup his CF cards but he refused it!
I guess when person gets to a certain old age, what last much longer than the person remaining years could end up less meaningful to the person himself and the person couldn’t care less for what the next person might want.
2 tin_the_fatty // Dec 27, 2003 at 2:10 pm
A print is a tangible thing. To our folks soft copies are not that accessible. If a print is good enough, then why bother w/ unnecessary workflows?
Not that I agree w/ this. Redundant storage, and redundant backup. I want a DVD writer.