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    • Charlie Eve Ryan
      Charlie Eve Ryan Pro SVS OG @Dulcie last edited by

      @Dulcie Are you using regular Dropbox or Dropbox Pro?

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      • Lee White
        Lee White SVS Team SVS Instructor Pro SVS OG last edited by

        dropbox pro

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        • Dulcie
          Dulcie SVS OG last edited by

          @Charlie-Eve-Ryan My husband and I use DropBox Business which has pretty much the same features as DropBox Pro.

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          • Bobby Aquitania
            Bobby Aquitania last edited by Bobby Aquitania

            I also make it a habit to save between layers as I work on Photoshop.

            I have lost things from a power surge, which I fixed with a proper surge protector. And I now mostly store things on an SSD drive, as spinning components off old drives are sometimes the cause of their failure, well more so than an SSD.

            The new hybrid drives are much better made. And of course you should always buy what you can afford but for the best you can afford in quality. Thankfully I have a parts guru I turn to, who accepts art in lieu of services, as he builds custom systems for a living. But not all hard drives are made equal... Here is some bad acting to explain that.

            Anyway just something to think about. I also have an external drive I use for important folders, and a pocket 1 TB drive, that saves my whole computer, when I remember to back it up. Both are USB attached, and so easy to use... but then I have a lot of desk space to remind me to use them...

            Good luck everyone!

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            • NoWayMe
              NoWayMe last edited by

              Thanks @Lee White for the tip, I just subscribed to Dropbox pro!

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              • Katrina Fowler
                Katrina Fowler last edited by

                Thank you @LeeWhite for the great information. I've an external drive I save too but now think Dropbox could be well worth the cost to have piece of mind.

                "Never give up! Never surrender!" ~Commander Peter Quincy Taggert

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                • Leontine
                  Leontine last edited by Leontine

                  Yep! a view years ago our back up system crashed, It costed 1200 us dollars to restore it. We work on Dropbox now, I use an extra hard drive to work on and we also have a time machine. Dropbox works really well, the only problem that can occur is that your computer stores the files so the files that you store also use space on your computer. If the files that you make are really large (photoshop files are always
                  large!!!) it can happen that there's not enough space on your computer. I haven't found oud how to archive work on Dropbox. It really worth wile to find a good system that works for you.

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                  • mattramsey
                    mattramsey last edited by

                    I 100% thought this was going to be a cautionary tale about how Lee just lost a bunch of work--glad that wasn't the case!

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                    • Lisa M Griffin
                      Lisa M Griffin last edited by

                      Great post Lee! I learned this the had way when my system crashed a few years ago... thankfully I had an amazing tech who was able to recover some of my files (ie work, photos etc) - now I use time machine and an external drive as well. It is easy, automatic and peace of mind!
                      I use Dropbox as well, but not for storage as much as transferring files to clients.

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                      • audrey dowling
                        audrey dowling last edited by

                        I seriously need to consider this...
                        Is your external hardrive constantly connected to your pc and plugged in?
                        Is the Windows Backup enough, comparing to Time Machine ( no idea how this works...)?

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                        • Naroth Kean
                          Naroth Kean last edited by

                          Thanks Lee for the great advice I just bought myself an external HD for that XD. Feel much safer now. My laptop is over 5 years old and ya know the system when you see the rainbow spinning wheel.

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