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<TITLE>T E X T F I L E S: A Minor (or Major) Catastrophe</TITLE>
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<B>A MINOR (OR MAJOR) CATASTOPHE</B>
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Happens to the best of us; one of my hard drives died and I lost the
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textfiles.com inbox.
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Huge thing, it was; over 65,000 files of all sorts, many of them binaries
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wrapped next to other file sets. I'd been going through about a thousand
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every week or so, and was progressing. Probably a third of the sorted
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files were making it onto the final site.
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I'm pretty good at my backups, and this hard drive crash killed little of
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my various projects; for example, textfiles.com is still fine, and the
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BBS Documentary Site is fine, and a host of other files were protected.
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But I did lose a lot of stuff that I would like to see again. In the
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case of the inbox, I thought it was being backed up nightly, and it wasn't.
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I'm thinking of sending the drive to a place called
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<A HREF="http://www.drivesavers.com">drivesavers</A>, who basically
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rip apart the drives and suck the data out. They quoted me prices of
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$1300-$3900 to do this. This is a lot of money, money I don't currently
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have.
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So, I don't know. I could try a fund-raising drive for this site, like
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I've seen others, to do the data restoration (or to try one). Or I could
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give it up and just assume it's lost.
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I'm looking for your opinion. <A HREF="mailto:jason@textfiles.com">Let
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me know.</A>
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Jason Scott<BR>
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<B>TEXTFILES.COM</B>
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