Mysticete
Well-known member
Frustrating evening.
Due to my attempts to fix some sort of vexing problem on my personal laptop, involving an audio driver that was installed but not working, I have killed my computer, beyond my ability to repair or use. Hopefully, it can be fixed tomorrow by professionals without files lost.
But if not...ouch. I used the pandemic and my housebound boredom to do a top down overhaul of all of my lists. I'm not worried about missing species...I've only had 1 lifer and 1 ABA bird since the last back up of files, and those are in Ebird. BUT...I used a custom taxonomy, and since the last update I completely reorganized the order of birds, added subfamilies, and updated my potenial future split list. Worst are my mammal and herp checklists...I use a custom taxonomy of my own making, which involved delving into the literature on bat and rodent taxonomy, going through EVERY genus of NA mammal and herp looking for splits, name changes, and recognized subfamilies, and all sorts of related work. and of course that is on top of all the other unbacked up materials, like my creative writing projects.
Months of work...potentially gone, just because I procrastinated on backing up files...
Due to my attempts to fix some sort of vexing problem on my personal laptop, involving an audio driver that was installed but not working, I have killed my computer, beyond my ability to repair or use. Hopefully, it can be fixed tomorrow by professionals without files lost.
But if not...ouch. I used the pandemic and my housebound boredom to do a top down overhaul of all of my lists. I'm not worried about missing species...I've only had 1 lifer and 1 ABA bird since the last back up of files, and those are in Ebird. BUT...I used a custom taxonomy, and since the last update I completely reorganized the order of birds, added subfamilies, and updated my potenial future split list. Worst are my mammal and herp checklists...I use a custom taxonomy of my own making, which involved delving into the literature on bat and rodent taxonomy, going through EVERY genus of NA mammal and herp looking for splits, name changes, and recognized subfamilies, and all sorts of related work. and of course that is on top of all the other unbacked up materials, like my creative writing projects.
Months of work...potentially gone, just because I procrastinated on backing up files...