Thanks for sharing that with us Seiche and let’s hope that you never have go through something that ever again. Cheers!

I guess I can be counted among the lucky, as I have never had a major meltdown with any ‘puter I’ve owned.

However, I do have a doozy of a horror story.

Unknown to me at the time, The Wife had a spreadsheet saved in her documents with every shred of personal information you could think of on it, broken down by person and/or account. Social Security numbers for the entire family, passwords to every account both online and off, account numbers, etc, etc, etc. And wouldnt you know it? The house was robbed and said information was cast to the wind.

Fast forward two years later, and we are still dealing with this in the abstract. Yes, we did suffer through identity theft, and the six months after the theft were a nightmare, but we acted fast, and averted most of the headaches. Most of the credit has to go to our financial planner. She tap danced like a barefoot Gregory Hines on a football field-sized George Foreman grill, but staved off the majority of the damage.

The Wife had thought if the spreadsheet was password protected, nobody could get in. I’m just glad she immediately confessed after seeing the machine missing.

As far as failsafe methods for backup, are there really any that are failsafe? Pictures and music go on their own discs which are then vacuum sealed, and a second hard drive is installed to back up data. That’s pretty much about it.

I had no idea what Windows XP EFS was until this post. Then again, I’m a litle computer illiterate once you move beyond the actual operation of said computer.

Thanks for the post, Bloke, and welcome back.