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Make a backup!

Posted on Monday, March 3rd, 2008 at 12:16 pm

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Why you should always backup your data.

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The other day, I overwrote nearly 10000 photo titles and descriptions. It put me in a bad mood for about 2 days. Those titles had taken me probably close to 1000 hours to write. Fortunately, I had a backup. Unfortunately, the backup was from 3 years ago. I’m now considering buying expensive speech to text software to ease the pain of typing out the titles of over 5000 photos.

The moral of the story? I think you’ve figured out what it is already…

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