digital data suicide?

google drive. Print the photos into a "memory book" kind of crap. Upload to FB. etc.
You shouldn't rely on something that proved to fail you multiple times.

>>18451610
Already done. What about my formatted drive that I am not utilizing? Should I format that and power through the great guilt that is stopping me?

I don't know how old you are OP. I'm 34. I mention age because I've had technology in my life enough to build up and then lose due to hard drive failure more than a few 'vital' things.

The first upsetting one was my painstakingly ripped or dialup downloaded mp3 collection. I'd been on the case with that one from my mid teens. Local bands, live recordings, things borrowed from friends now no longer friends or living. I also lost all the masters from recording sessions with various bands I was part of in and around the local college. Pictures were not that big a deal funnily enough because decent digital cameras were kind of rare back then. That was the first owch.

Later I lost thousands of pictures of my ex wife and our life together, time spent living in america. More recordings of music projects (mp3's no longer relevant) my wedding video, university work/projects. This one hurt quite a lot because a lot of it was useful stuff which I'd like to have to refer back to, less sentimental, but certainly the pictures grew with the popularity and improvement of digital cameras.

The third failure cost me quite a few years of notes. At this point pictures are online or taken via smart phone for social media. Music is kept streaming and data I upload to the cloud. But I kept notes, references, spreadsheets, data from experiments and studies, things I knew would prove handy in the future and came to rely on which are no longer freely online. Still now I go to refer back to a chart or to check the rate of a value because I can remember testing it to death back in the day and the notes are just not there.

What I tend to do now is blog my notes and experiments. Not so much for others, though occasional input or feedback is useful, but so it is online in some form. I also keep a notebook, though that is likely the frailest method of all.

My employer recently gave me a contract amendment saying that I'll have to return or destroy my notebooks if I leave. Sucks.

>>18451650
Anyway I forgot the advice. Just suck it up and deal with it. Like anything it sucks, but you become desensitised to it and you learn to deal with it in some manner.

I prefer to see it as a broader thing, a cathartic experience which teaches me the value of impermanence and to develop a healthier relationship with and perception of temporality. We often have little control over events in our lives and the anxiety this creates is part of the human condition and won't go away. Loss is constant, but becomes less devastating with wisdom which tends to accumulate with experience which relates to time.

If we want to live freely and be able to make active choices unburdened by this anxiety we have to come to terms with this lack of control and develop coping mechanisms against it. Focusing on the bright side when faced with impermanence and challenging the normative narratives around how we interact with time (controlled, measured, understood, safe, secure) is one of the healthier ways for me.

Sum all that up as shit happens, deal with it. Or learn to let go. Learn to move on. Whatever. Go with the flow. Dasein. Being concerned with objects relating to memories due to a fear of loss of the experience is not being in the moment.

>>18451674
Thankyou!