Early one Saturday I got an email from a customer who lost all her embroidery designs when her computer craashed... 

She wanted to know if I could send them to her again.  I was happy to send her a download link to the designs she had purchased from our current shopping cart, but as for designs she had purchased from us years ago, or designs she had downloaded through her membership, the answer was no, because we don't track what someone downloads on ATW with their membership.  

This same scenario repeats every few days for me.  Another customer with lost embroidery designs. Or family photos.  Or videos.  Or recipes.  Or tax returns.  Etc.  Wanting to know if I can help them. 

Unfortunately, after your computer crashes it is too late to make a backup.  So why not do it NOW instead?  

 

Computers die and that will NEVER CHANGE!   

When they do, you either already have a backup already made of the files on it, or you lose them.   Making backups seems so complex.  So... "techy". But it really isn't hard to do. 

It really is simple to make a backup of your files.   

I could make a how-to article, but frankly I don't need to do that because there are already LOTS of those online and I would rather send you to an article already written well, or a video already done well, than spend the time remaking articles and videos on the topic every year or two as technology changes.  To get how-to info, click the two buttons below this section. 

It may take you an hour to set up your backup plan today.  That is nothing compared to the DAYS you will spend trying to recover as much as possible of your lost files if you don't spend the hour setting up your backups now.  

If you already have a backup system in place,.. use this email as a reminder to check today that your system is still working.  Sometimes the backup systems we setup stop working and we don't know until it is time to use those backups.  Ugh.  That one really hurts.  So spend a couple minutes checking today that your backup system IS running properly then relax knowing are covered already.