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Back Up Your Songs

Backup Your Songs 1 Gb of photos… now I save edited photos on a
Don’t Gamble With Your Songwriting cloud.

It’s not a feeling I want to repeat… sweating as The backup files of my Master’s Thesis… it was
my laptop screen goes black and “hard disk published so I only lost my electronic drafts.
error” flashes on the screen. First, a flash of

disbelief... “this can’t be happening,” followed Music… back in the day I ripped over 50 CDs
quickly with a flash of anger at my computer. I and then gave them away before a cross country
quickly redirect it at myself as I realize I hadn’t move.
backed up my computer in months. After
frantically pressing random buttons I break out Choose Your Most Effective Solution
in a cold sweat...
Two years ago I ran out of space on my iCloud
I’m trying not to freak out, 6 months of work account. I’d filled it with photos and videos. I

could be lost: songs, video projects, music deleted a few hundred photos and a dozen
production files, photos…. It’s my own fault! I videos. I ran out of space again. Sure I could
can’t even blame someone else. I know better, have dumped everything onto my laptop, but
I’ve had harddrive failures before. I’d experienced harddrive failure before. After
spending hours reviewing and deleting photos
I didn’t follow my own backup plan. It’s been and videos I decided to pay and upgrade my
6 months since I last did a full backup of my storage plan… one of the best $1.99 a month
harddrive. decisions I’ve ever made. No regrets at all!

I’ve got partial backups of a lot of my work.
There are USB drives with some of my video
projects in a desk drawer. Most of my finished

songs are typed up in Google docs, but the
incomplete drafts and rough copies in word
documents might be gone. I’ve got no idea how
long it might take to put all the pieces back
together and how many things will be missing!

I Know Better…

I’ve lost electronic documents before. At various
times, I’ve lost:

50+ files of songs I’ve written and notated on
computer… I had hard copies of most of them.

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