A tip to those who have nearly all their wedding stuff on their computer!

Yikes i had a very lucky escape with my laptop last month when it decided it just did not want to turn on and stay on, luckily it did in the end long enough to stick my portable hard drive in and get everything i needed off!

Oh poor you ! I'm a bit of a technophobe so all my notes are in a notebook, the planner is the one on here ,and the only thing I have kept on it are little uploaded pics of stuff I like. i had the same problem as funkyjames- my computer wouldn't switch and stay on, I now have a new one but have written all my info down in a notebook-just in case !

Oh what a nightmare, I hope the items your mum has will help get you back on track.

I've recently started using Dropbox for all my wedding stuff just in case anything happens it. As it's on online solution (and free for 2Gb storage but you can pay for more if needed) I can access it easily from anywhere. It's just like another folder on my pc but can access it on any other computer, my phone etc. It's fabulous!

Oh no!

I hope your mum has copies of all the most important / difficult to replicate stuff. I use google drive for everything like that. It's great be ause you can access and edit from any computer, even iPad!

Is ther any chance of a techie friend managing to recover the data from your hard drive?

I keep meaning to back my stuff up after almost losing everything a few months ago, this thread has just prompted me to put everything on my memory stick!

Thanks!

Yup, my sister spilt wine on our mac and its now dead and gone! luckily i had copies of most things on my computer at work (major phew). can also save the hard drive and put it into a caddy. so at least have all our photos saved. but damn, i was still quite upset!!

xx

How broken is it? my H2B is really good with stuff like this, and he said there is a way of getting things back off it.

To those of you who don't have it already, I can highly recommended Dropbox.

https://www.dropbox.com/

You can download it on your home, work, friends PC, iPhone, iPad etc and it stores all your files for you.

It also means that if you (like I do), amend spreadsheets at work, they automatically update wherever you have dropbox, so you don't have to email files to yourself.

It is genius!

I was only thinking about this before as my lap top is behaving a bit erratically at the moment - yikes!

Does it cost money Kirst? I have no idea on these things?

Nope, it's free.

You can pay for upgrades for more memory etc, but to be honest, you should have more than enough with the free package.

Thanks for the reminder - I have Dropbox on my Ipad and my Netbook but hadn't installed it on the Mac (which is of course what I use for proper wedding stuff - ie not just searching ebay and Hitched for ideas!)

* gets memory stick out *

Thank you ?

This has slightly scared the crap out of me! Thanks for the nudge, will back up tonight.

I hope you recover lots of your work :-( big hug x x x x