Lost .awt Files

Very unlikely. Bummer.While you had a hardware issue, most of the time the problem comes from operator error - that's you or me accidental deleting something.I have said this before and will post this here again on backups. Spend the few $s on WinZip and be done with it. The new one allows you to set up "jobs" that can be run daily, weekly, monthly. Here is what I do and you should seriously consider doing something like this.1. Organize all your active folders in one containing folder for ease of use.2. Set up a daily job to backup all your active folders to an off-your-computer location -- network drive, external hard drive, another computer. Hard drives are down to $100-200.3. Hourly backup your active folder to another folder on your hard drive. With the new WinZip you can specify that it goes into a folder for that day of the week. You can also specify that the file name have the date and or time included. This way you can have one for every hour for the past week.4. Keep your daily files for a month. Then thin them out so that you have one a week.5. I even have one that runs every 10 minutes that does all the .awt files. To get the hourly and every 10 min. versions you just have to open the Windows scheduler.I go back to my backups set up like this probably once a week to recover lost stuff, mostly due to my error. Once in a great while it is technical problems.

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