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Silver Gaia

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5. I've only had that happen once.
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 01:18 PM
Nov 14

It was probably around 2001, I think. I also hadn't backed up in a long time. It was a lot harder to do backup back then. I lost everything. Nothing recoverable. I had been doing genealogy research for my dad. I had documents that someone had sent me digital copies of proving that one of my great-great grandmothers was Choctaw (she was not on the Dawes rolls). Gone. I didn't even have the name or email of the guy who shared it and couldn't duplicate the string of contacts that had led to him. It had just happened and it was all on that hard drive, which was fried. That was a hard lesson to learn.

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