![]() ![]() Well, this runs counter to most of the informed advice I've read on Windows-based systems. I don't want to pay for the electricity if I'm not using it. Of course, there is a happy medium and I power mine off at home too. The spinning up/down of the drive is the most work it will due. Hard drives that worked fine suddenly die when power cycled, etc. The expansion/contraction from the system heating/cooling can cause solder junctions and other electronic components to fail over time. Regarding the powering down while not in use, it's actually the opposite for hard drives and most electronics.leaving them on is "easier" on them than constantly powering on/off. Don't let anyone tell you these things are fool-proof! That freak lightning strike burned a black mark into the side of our house & nearly gave my mother-in-law a stroke because it was so literally out-of-the blue. Forgot to say yes, we have surge protection on everything & a lightning rod. We need to have a PC for the foreseeable future, due to work/home compatibility. of the computer! I don't know if there are MAC/PC differences with that. ![]() That time, it didn't get the computer, but it zapped everything within 15 ft. We already had a huge lightning strike that came BANG!! completely out of the blue in broad daylight (no rain, no distant rumbles) & zapped a bunch of stuff. There are many nights when it's quite possible we could have a pretty severe one. Why have everything running constantly (& drawing power, etc.) if it's not in use? The other biggie is that we live in Eastern PA where there are often un-announced thunderstorms. Why shut off power? My computer system (a Mac Pro) hasn't been intentionally shut down (except for necessary restarts with Software Updates) in 4 years.įrom what we understand, it's better to give the system a break, cool it down, etc. You shut your power off at night? Backblaze will constantly backup for you, the initial backup takes a few weeks but after that the stuff just happens. I don't know how much drain that constant uploading of changed files causes on a daily basis? I am also reading & re-reading the most recent version of the DAM book thanks to some of your suggestions, and yes it's fantastic & is EXACTLY what I needed! We generally shut off our main power at night. One thing I'm not sure about is the constant uploading. (or Amazon not sure which is better for our purposes). P.S.- Yes, I've been looking into getting BackBlaze for the future (per suggestions from this forum), and imagine I wouldn't be asking this question if I'd had it 2 months ago. atn files, right? Is there something that would be "hiding" them from our searches? Also, if we absolutely can't see them (with the old HD hooked up to our re-vamped computer) does that suggest there's no other way to recover them? That's really the only files I know of that I spent time on & would be a real PITA if we can't recover them. This post is my last-ditch effort to see if there's something else we should be looking for, or if anyone has any recovery ideas. We're guessing that this means they got fried or whatever it just seems a little odd to me since the others are there. That's it- no custom ones that he can find. atn files that appear to be some pre-set actions that PS2 came with. ![]() The problem is, he can't find the files at all. he found online made this appear do-able. ![]() So his plan was to recover my PS Action files as well from the old HD, in hopes of adding them to PS4- the info. We installed CS4 instead on our new HD, because my spouse is able to have a home copy & it made sense to do the switch-over. I spent a couple weeks creating a bunch of custom Photoshop Actions in PS2 (We still have CS2 on the old hard drive). Well, in the month couple weeks before the crash, I had just learned how to do some bulk processing in PS (thanks to you guys). Anyway, we bought a new hard drive & recovered much of the stuff off the old drive that we wanted, re-installed Vista & other major programs onto the new drive, etc. (sorry, I don't technically know all the language to describe the events). I mean, we didn't lose much if anything that we know of (& yes, my photos are all intact & backed up elsewhere anyway), but the computer basically became un-usable the way it was, etc. We had a sort of hard drive crash a few weeks ago. ![]()
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