23 Jul 07:49
--@Zip Sounds like a good idea, I also suggest beaming files of your work into outer space from Arecibo so that aliens might download your work millions of years after life on Earth has ceased to exist.
Shout Box archive
23 Jul 07:49
--Oh no that sound aweful. :( So you had to bascially start from zero again?
23 Jul 07:47
--I idiotically left it in the back of my car when I used to drive to work. Kept my backup drive in the same bag....and all my good camping / survival gear in my earthquake bugout bag
23 Jul 07:47
--hahaha. Maybe you should upload your stuff to satelite as well just in case the earth explodes
23 Jul 07:47
--To ensure likelihood of survivability in case of a global asteroid strike.
23 Jul 07:46
--One guy told me that you should have copies of your work on your system, one backup on an external device, and another backup on an external device at a remote geographic location.
23 Jul 07:45
--I had my laptop and all my backups for all my work ever stolen about two years ago.
23 Jul 07:45
--Some people only had files of their paintings on CGHub, and when it went away their folio just disappeared. D:
23 Jul 07:45
--oh man yeah. I just mean right now I can at least still get my hand on a bunch of files I'm missing
23 Jul 07:44
--Websites can just go away too, though, remember the day CGHub disappeared?
23 Jul 07:44
--also I uploaded a bunch of my stuff on websites so at least it still exists there
23 Jul 07:43
--As digital artists we can make endless copies of our work, so we can actually have less chance of losing it.
23 Jul 07:42
--Well the same could happen if your paintings caught fire as a traditional artist, I believe some of the chemicals uses are flammable.
23 Jul 07:41
--it's so weird being a mostly digital artist. One day the work of several months can just be erased in mere seconds
23 Jul 07:39
--Even Bobby Chiu lost a lot of the high-res files of his earlier paintings 'cause his HD went belly-up. On the day when he quit his job to go freelance full time.
23 Jul 07:38
--You aren't the only one, Zip, I've seen professional artists lose big chunks of their folios that way.
23 Jul 07:31
--Public Service Annoucement: Don't be like me guys. Always have a back up of your important files on an external device.
23 Jul 06:49
--I'm sorry to hear that your sick and your laptop died on you, that sucks man. :^(