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blitzeclipse358

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My computer just crashed and I have lost all of my Halloween sequences for this year (yes, I was dumb and forgot to backup). There is no way for me to do it all again in 10 days. Can anyone share some sequences. Anything is appreciated.  

 

email: blitz8633@yahoo.com

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I'm sorry you lost your computer and sequences.  As I don't do a "show" for Halloween, I likely can't do much for you.

 

However my standard advise:  BACKUP!  BACKUP!  BACKUP!  More than one backup and better and have at least one off-site.  During a programming session I save regularly - each time with a new file name (so I can go back to the version 15 minutes ago if needed).  My files are stored on my server which has the files on a RAID array.  That is backed up weekly to an external hard drive which is taken to work, and after almost every programming session, I copy the final version of the files from that session to Google Drive.  I use a filename format that makes it completely obvious which is a newer version of a file no matter when I get the file from.  For example, a sequence file might have a filename of:  Hark the Herald Angles Sing - 2015-10-20j.lms  That would be revision j of the programming session on October 20th of 2015.  I have also used the date and time rather than a revision letter.

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Ya backing up in crucial. I lost my computer this summer. Luckily my 2014 show is on an SD card and a few I was working on were on Google drive. But I'm going to be more aware and backup better from now on.

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