I’ve just been giving this site a makeover. As I was doing that I remembered what happened to a photographer friend/client a few months back. I won’t name him and I hope he doesn’t mind me telling you what happened.
He has a website where he showcases his work. All his photos are stored on high capacity external hard drives with (fortunately) the originals kept on CDs and DVDs and locked in a safe.
He spent a happy afternoon uploading some photos to his website. To do this he used Filezilla, which is ftp software for uploading files directly to your website.
For some reason he couldn’t explain he decided that the left-hand side of his screen (all the files on his external hard drive) looked cluttered, so he decided to “delete the files from Filezilla”. It took nearly an hour, apparently. It was only then that he realised that
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