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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sakata, post: 2657589, member: 23778&quot;]Very true, of course.&nbsp; But that is the way of life in the world of computers and is the reason we take regular backups.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have everything encoded and password protected.&nbsp; The Excel file, the catalog data, the inventory data and the pictures are all in different locations, determined by the password.&nbsp; All are encoded, even the pictures.&nbsp; That way if anyone hacks in and gets the files they are useless to them unless have recovered all the files from different locations, know to associate them (the names are random strings with no file extension), and have the password.</p><p><br /></p><p>In that sort of environment backups to an external drive are essential. That take minutes only after each session of adding new data. I have accidentally deleted data files not realizing what they were but it was not a problem.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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