Thursday, November 04, 2004
Learn from my mistakes.
When I travel with a digital camera I regularly move the images from my media device to my laptop. The only time I have had a virus on my PC, it was on my laptop. Years ago I didn't keep the latest version of my virus protection program on my laptop. The DAT file was up to date, but the program wasn't up to speed. I didn't know the newer version detected more of these pesky critters then the one I had.
The virus I received in an email (at 2 AM when I was working on the road) destroyed all my .JPG files within seconds. And that was where I kept all those photos.
On a recent vacation trip I copied all my photo files to my hard drive. The original went on one partition, a copy that I would edit on went on another. And the originals were backed up nightly to a CD. I burned five CDs on vacation. But I would have done that for archival purposes when I got home any way. It worked great.
When I travel with a digital camera I regularly move the images from my media device to my laptop. The only time I have had a virus on my PC, it was on my laptop. Years ago I didn't keep the latest version of my virus protection program on my laptop. The DAT file was up to date, but the program wasn't up to speed. I didn't know the newer version detected more of these pesky critters then the one I had.
The virus I received in an email (at 2 AM when I was working on the road) destroyed all my .JPG files within seconds. And that was where I kept all those photos.
On a recent vacation trip I copied all my photo files to my hard drive. The original went on one partition, a copy that I would edit on went on another. And the originals were backed up nightly to a CD. I burned five CDs on vacation. But I would have done that for archival purposes when I got home any way. It worked great.
