As a computer repair technician, I get desperate phone calls from customers every day.
They usually sound something like this:
“PLEASE help me! I put my phone on the hood of the car for one second and forgot about it when I drove away. Now it won’t turn on… and I have YEARS of family photos on there.”
Or… “I don’t know what happened. I was on my computer playing solitaire when the screen suddenly turned black… I’m afraid to touch it. I JUST moved my vacation photos with my grandchildren to my computer and deleted them off my phone… is there any hope?”
Of course, I tell all my customers to “ALWAYS BACK UP” – but hardly any of them do. And honestly, I understand why – it takes a TON of effort to back up all your most important files!
First, you have to dig through all those folders across ALL your devices… then organize all your photos and videos… and then you have to go through each file and figure out which ones you’re going to back up, removing the duplicates you’ve already backed up in the past. You can easily spend hundreds of hours going through everything!
We’d all rather spend our free time doing just about anything else. But get this: 140,000 hard drives crash EVERY WEEK in the United States alone…
And as a result, about 46% of internet users lose their files every year.