I’d would say, “I don’t have ANYTHING, it’s all held in a temporary machine that will blow up any day. “When I lose EVERYTHING, I plan to do the following _” is the wrong premise IMO. It looks like you have an underperforming class where 100% of them are unsuitable for the job market if they cannot care enough for their own work, or follow instructions from their teachers. These are proven numbers, I’m just reporting it here, don’t shoot the messenger. On average, worldwide, about 80% of industrial design students are unsuitable for employment in their own field, it’s a combination of a lack of proper preparation/training + being a very small and very competitive market. You just don’t know it yet.Īlso for heavens sake, setup everything you do, with 2-factor authentication.Īnd yet, after three weeks, no one implemented a back-up system.

If you run a program and hit file>new without a backup setup, you already lost that file. Setup a Dropbox, or Time Machine or any other restorable always-connected, always syncing backup system even before you install any other software on your computer. Saving over and over progress in the same file for longer than a few hours, without making a new file version/revision is another sign of lack of basic computer literacy.

Files don’t really exists until they are backed up in a reliable, secure, back-rollable and state-restorable backup system.Īlso you should only keep working and rewriting the same file for as much time that you are willing to let vanish at any point. The first thing I teach a new employee/trainees is that anything saved only in a local computer is not saved at all, and that computers are only a temporary cache of files. This is a systemic failure in the education system.

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