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When you're backing up...Aaaaaarghhh!...UPDATE
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Christine in Herts | Report | 9 Feb 2005 21:52 |
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I have discovered another way to recover your lost records: Have a partner (in my case, a husband) who does a complete back-up of all the data from time to time and puts it somewhere where it doesn't get over-written! In my case, it was last December, so there's a bit to recover, but nothing like so much as I'd thought. Christine |
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Christine in Herts | Report | 9 Feb 2005 19:25 |
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I have some proper family tree software, and I always back it up carefully in a cycle of three - I always have two older ones than the most recent and that's apart from a working copy. --- I hadn't been doing that with my Excel worksheet where I keep lots of the detailed info in "comments": DoB, where/when for census/directory info etc. I'd just been overwriting the back-up each time. Guess which one has got itself corrupted! And guess what, I'd overwritten the back-up before I realised. --- Ah well, I've managed to recover all the names in their various cells. I just have to hope that my brother or a cousin still has a copy I sent them and which will have all those precious "comments" so I don't have to start all over again! LEARN FROM MY MISTAKE! - Christine |
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