but first, here’s the audio:
OH OK GREAT
adventures in sorting and filing
Ok, here’s the thing. I learned to never store all of my project data (all the projects I had worked on and was working on) on a single hard drive. Yep, you know the rest, I don’t even have to tell you. I had a 1TB drive (it was 2011) and *all* of my data was stored on that one drive. I had a second drive on which I stored a copy of what was on my first drive. This was not an automated process – I would just erase what was on the backup drive, then drag and drop everything on my working drive (ctrl+a – select all) to the newly cleared backup drive, walk away, and come back in a day after all of it had copied – good enough…. or is it? It turns out to be no. No it is not good enough.
It takes a while so I didn’t do it terribly often (obviously not as often as I would have liked). I was in the middle of working on the above audio compositions when disaster struck. When I went to use my computer I noticed that the hard drive was acting funny – files and folders were missing and some would not open. This is first and only warning that I had ever received from that drive (usually there are warning signs but nope, not this time) and from there it just quickly went downhill. I never thought it would happen to me. I will never buy hard drives from a certain company whose name is bit like ‘Oceangate’.
It, of course, had been a while since I had backed up so there you have it, $1300 and about a month and a half later I had a lot of my data back but unfortunately I did not recover the original working files (Live .als files) for the above audio pieces so I could not continue working on what I believe may be some of my best, conventional ‘music’ work. Oh yeah, and this happened mid-way through the largest show I have all year. Oh well, life is full of missed moments and unpressed record buttons. Blarbs I guess.