For me, I have a bad memory. I might remember a childhood movie (a nickname I give to special Linux ISOs) that I hadn’t even thought of for 10 years and track down a copy, sometimes excavating obscure sources, and that may be hours of one-time inspiration and work repeated many times over. Having a complete list is a good helper, but a full backup of course is best.
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Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 16 hours agoIf you can’t remember what you lost, did you really need it to begin with?
Unless it’s personal memories of course.
NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 15 hours ago
I can’t remember the name of an excel spreadsheet I created years ago, which has continually matured with lots of changes. I often have to search for it off the many I have for different purposes.
Trusting your memory is a naive, amateur approach.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
If the spreadsheet is important it sounds like it would be part of the 4 GB that was backed up.
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
The key here being that you actually remember the file exists, because it’s important. Some other random spreadsheet you don’t even remember exists because you haven’t needed it since forever is probably not all that important to backup.
If you loose something without ever realizing you lost it, it was not important so there would be no reason to make a backup.
frongt@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
So you do remember that you have several frequently-used spreadsheets.
three@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
Psst, you missed the point and need to re-read the thread.
cenzorrll@piefed.ca 13 hours ago
You put that with everything else similar into a folder, which is backed up. Mine is called “Files”. If there’s something in there that I don’t need backed up. It still gets backed up. If there’s something very large in there that I don’t need backed up, it gets removed in one of my “oh shit these backups are huge” purges.