Juvenile‘s crass (but catchy) hit song has become a reminder to me that I need to remember to back up my files on a regular basis. Really his “clean edit” version, Back That Thing Up, is a more appropriate title, but I thought my post about boring computer woes needed some sexing up so I went with the more provocative “Azz”. Plus, I’m gangsta like that.
Last week my external hard-drive bit the dust. Total flatline. Thankfully I had the good sense to have already backed up my album recording files to my dropbox online drive, so I didn’t lose too much of my work. Stupidly, I hadn’t backed anything up for a couple of months (which were, of course, very productive) so I did lose a decent amount of vocal recordings and editing, but nothing earth-shattering. I did, however, manage to lose all of my photos and my entire itunes song collection – over 9,500 songs. Losing the pictures really makes me sad because I had my Dad’s collection in there, too. Pictures he took on his visit to see me here in NYC the summer before he died. I hate losing those. And some other pictures that maybe I shouldn’t have been looking at but that I didn’t want to lose.
I’m not sure what made me protect my my album but not my photos and music library. It’s weird not having any songs in my itunes after having had so many. Thank god this is the age of Spotify. I do miss the portability of having my collection with me, but my ipod had died the week before anyway. Bad stretch for me with electronics. So, my album is not lost, but now it is delayed – yet again. There will sadly (or perhaps mercifully) never be a From the Vault album of unreleased singles since my body of work prior to this album was completely wiped out with this crash. So, you’ll never hear any of the old tunes recorded by me back when I called myself Hayden Yates, Setay Nedyah (don’t ask), or, simply, Nate. Sad for me, but better to focus on the present rather than the past, probably.
So take Juvi’s advice and Back That Thing Up. Losing precious memories is so not gully.
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