First of all, let me say I am enjoying being back in Kathmandu
After my first bout of tech dramas earlier in the trip the small problems keep trying to trip me up.
Firstly, and most frustratingly, my own portable hard drive has decided to stop working, but only with my PC - it's still talking to my Mac (perhaps it's a snob) but that makes backing up and transferring something of a pain. Also, because I only had my PC with me for the last month it meant wasting my 16GB SD card as a temporary back up facility.
Secondly, I've been left with a giant terrabite hard drive to deliver to someone, as well as use for myself. First of all, it's annoying because KTM currently has 4-6 hours without electricity a day, so thanks to its external power requirements it's useless for large chunks of the day. Also, someone has done something to the settings and now I can't copy to it, so it's become completely useless to me as a back up option.
Third woe is that my little GPS tracker I was so excited about has stopped working. Most annoyingly, it tells me with its deceptive little blinking light that everything is ok, and then when I stick it into my computer it tells me there's no data there. The only thing more annoying than tech failing you is tech failing you after 8 hours of walking up and down hills.
I'm still getting stuff done, but if there's one thing that freaks me out it's having insufficient back up. I may sound like I'm being hyper-sensitive on the issue of backing stuff up, but I had a very traumatic experience a few years ago where I lost three different back ups of my work in the space of a week (laptop stolen, thumb drive error and then bag stolen) and would have lost all my work had I not left a backup CD at my parents place (huzzah for off-site storage!) so I'm kind of a bit highly strung about this stuff. Thankfully I've still got everything it an least 3 different places!
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Before I left for Solukhumbu, I remember having some trouble backing up the contents of my laptop on the brick. I'd get halfway through the back-up before a message said that the disc was full (you'd done a back-up of your computer too, but there's no way those contents would've reached 1 TB).
ReplyDeleteIn the end when I got back, I just deleted whatever I had backed up from my computer and just put the Sherpa stuff on it.
If you can access the hard drive, try copying the Sherpa stuff onto something has enough space and reformatting the whole thing.