Re: My First HDD Failure (I Think)

On 11/27/24 2:25 AM, Farley Flud wrote:

On Wed, 27 Nov 2024 01:45:28 -0600, Physfitfreak wrote:
 

On 11/26/24 2:41 AM, Farley Flud wrote:

You may want to check out Obsidian:
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https://obsidian.md/

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It reminds me of One Note, which incidentally caused the loss of a huge
chunk of my work and time some years back when newer versions of it
could not load the data of the older versions.. I never trust such
dangerous things again. I do my own organizing and create my own
structure for everything I store, of any kind.
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 The "dangerous thing" here is Micro$oft with its proprietary formats.
 Obsidian uses only open formats.  From their web page:
 "Obsidian uses open, non-proprietary files, so you're never locked in,
and can preserve your data for the long term."
  Anyone who uses commercial software is assuming the great risk
of losing important data in the future.
    

Nevertheless, the idea itself is a trap. A wrong strategy. One day it ruins months of your work, if not years of it, for some nonsensical technical reason.
To me it is like being active in a forum that has moderators. You just don't do that. Nobody in the world is trusted in that position. To be there is a blunder.