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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 1992379, member: 27832&quot;]I feel for you; I&#039;ve fallen victim to the same scenario, with a variety of media, all the way back to floppies that <i>did</i> get damaged by magnets. (Heck, I&#039;ve dealt with a dropped deck of <i>punch-cards</i>.) I love the way technology&#039;s advance has made it easy to carry around ever-huger masses of data, but few people mention the inevitable corollaries:</p><p><br /></p><p>1) The more stuff you can store in one place, the more stuff you can destroy with one mistake.</p><p>2) The easier it is to carry, the easier it is to lose.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve got holes in my workflow as well, but I don&#039;t do enough &quot;work&quot; of this sort right now to be facing a lot of risk anyhow. I feel better once I&#039;ve saved to a <i>non-portable</i> destination (so I won&#039;t leave it somewhere), a <i>portable</i> destination (in case the big non-portable one suffers a catastrophe), and a <i>remote</i> destination (in case both of the first happen). Honestly, though, most of my stuff hasn&#039;t yet made that final jump.</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, and for what it&#039;s worth, I don&#039;t think there&#039;s any way to damage a memory card with a magnet, unless you use the magnet to physically crush it. Credit cards with a magnetic stripe are still vulnerable, though.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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