Well it is that time of year ago. The ringing in my head caused by the ringing of the front door are gone. The Holidays are behind us, it is time to move forward into the new year and better every aspect of our lives that we can. Get closer with family, work harder at your job, reach out to old friends and do a better job or meeting new ones, help those that are in need, rescue a beautiful boxer from Carolina Boxer Rescue, and on top of all things DO A BETTER JOB OF BACKING UP YOUR FILES!

See my earlier Blog on how I suggest transferring your files: from your camera to your desk top and then keeping them in folders and THEN uploading them to iphoto or whatever free file sharing service you are using. However, keep you originals! Date your folders by the date you down loaded them, and then put them in a monthly folder and at the end of each month put them in your yearly folder. When the year ends, burn as many DVDs as it takes so that you have two copies of your year’s worth of videos and photo images . Before the end of the year comes, have your files saved to an external hard drive, and to make it easy on yourself, install a program that will automatically back-up for you once or twice a week, or daily if you wish. It is too easy and too cheap to avoid this step in securing your work and your families memories. Most thieves do not steal external components, so if your computer is stolen, you likely will have all the information from the previous day ready to install in your new computer.

However, if you find yourself in that gut wrenching, hopeless, empty situation of having a crashed hard drive, or a disk with a years worth of memories stored on it that can no longer be recognized by your computer, there is hope. Don’t ask me how, but there are services that can recover your data, it is not 100% guaranteed, but they usually can recover most if not all of the data from your drive. The service we trust and recommend to our customers is DriveSavers, . If they can’t save it, than there is not cost to you.