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{{Q|Google is a library or an archive like a supermarket is a food museum.| [http://ascii.textfiles.com/ Jason Scott], digital archivist}} | {{Q|Google is a library or an archive like a supermarket is a food museum.| [http://ascii.textfiles.com/ Jason Scott], digital archivist}} | ||
Do you value your digital stuff? Nearly everyone is creating things with computers, and some do it without any concern for its value. Others recognize its current value, but think little about what it could mean to them in the future, and either aren't aware or don't think that all of it could be destroyed ''tomorrow''. But hard drives die all the time, and the online services into which people sink their time close with alarming regularity, taking the work of millions of people with it. Preserve your digital memories now, before it's too late. | Do you value your digital stuff? Nearly everyone is creating things with computers, and some do it without any concern for its value. Others recognize its current value, but think little about what it could mean to them in the future, and either aren't aware or don't think that all of it could be destroyed ''tomorrow''. But hard drives die all the time, and the online services into which people sink their time close with alarming regularity, taking the work of millions of people with it. Preserve your digital memories now, before it's too late. | ||
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== Steps == | == Steps == | ||
# Make a quick backup ''now''. If nothing else, get a cheap USB stick and drag-and-drop your documents folder onto it. Worry about the other things later. You ''should'' do more than this, but it's most important to take the most valuable, irreplaceable information from your hard drive and put it on a second medium to guard against hard drive failure, theft or loss.<br /><br />''Stop reading until you have done this and stop making excuses to not do it.'' {{largeimage|USB Stick_36246.jpg|Getting your most important stuff onto a cheap USB stick is a lot better than having no backups at all. Do it right now.}} | # Make a quick backup ''now''. If nothing else, get a cheap USB stick and drag-and-drop your documents folder onto it. Worry about the other things later. You ''should'' do more than this, but it's most important to take the most valuable, irreplaceable information from your hard drive and put it on a second medium to guard against hard drive failure, theft or loss.<br /><br />''Stop reading until you have done this and stop making excuses to not do it.'' {{largeimage|USB Stick_36246.jpg|Getting your most important stuff onto a cheap USB stick is a lot better than having no backups at all. Do it right now.}} | ||
