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Sorting through the archives....
Sep. 24th, 2011 04:37 pmNow I finally decided to sort out my computer archives, I find myself so overloaded with work that I am wondering whether I will actually finish it. Keep in mind:
1) I had one computer stolen and several crashing, with me trying to rescue the internal HDs and eventually saving their content here and there;
2) a lot of my memories are kept on CDs and even on old floppies which I had the sense never to throw away;
3) the main body of them was dispersed across no less than four external HDs, which included hundreds of video and audio files as well as years of writing, reading and downloading;
4) A large folder - the "My Music" folder - just vanished in the process of being transfered from one external HD to another, and I had to use recovery software to retrieve it. Only the recovery software didn't just retrieve the lost music - it retrieved pretty much everything that had ever hit that HD, including such things as advertising shorts I and other stuff I positively didn't want.
5) Just now, I have discovered another folder full of stuff (12.7 Gigabytes, OK?) which I absolutely didn't remember making.
This is exhausting work, mostly very boring, but necessary and full of rewards. I am retrieving hundreds of notes for research and for fics that I hardly remembered starting, and I am simply besieged with good ideas for stuff. I hope that in the next few days this LJ will see a sharp increase in interesting posts - if I don't just die from dislocating my jaw yawning, first.
1) I had one computer stolen and several crashing, with me trying to rescue the internal HDs and eventually saving their content here and there;
2) a lot of my memories are kept on CDs and even on old floppies which I had the sense never to throw away;
3) the main body of them was dispersed across no less than four external HDs, which included hundreds of video and audio files as well as years of writing, reading and downloading;
4) A large folder - the "My Music" folder - just vanished in the process of being transfered from one external HD to another, and I had to use recovery software to retrieve it. Only the recovery software didn't just retrieve the lost music - it retrieved pretty much everything that had ever hit that HD, including such things as advertising shorts I and other stuff I positively didn't want.
5) Just now, I have discovered another folder full of stuff (12.7 Gigabytes, OK?) which I absolutely didn't remember making.
This is exhausting work, mostly very boring, but necessary and full of rewards. I am retrieving hundreds of notes for research and for fics that I hardly remembered starting, and I am simply besieged with good ideas for stuff. I hope that in the next few days this LJ will see a sharp increase in interesting posts - if I don't just die from dislocating my jaw yawning, first.
