Foreshadowing.
You know how you always say you're going to take care of something but you keep putting it off and putting it off? And then something happens that if you had taken care of it earlier like you said you would, it wouldn't be an issue?
When that something is backing up 85.59GBs of music, it is something one does not want to feel at any time, let alone at this hour, sick as I am, and having to get up in a mere four hours. I thought, instead of updating my iPod in the morning, I would take care of it now while I straightened up the room a little since my roomie's parents are coming by. It finished surprisingly quick, so I ejected it (because it doesn't disconnect on its own) the proper way and then I went to play a song. And it said file not found. So I of course quickly go to Gackt, because those files are well known to my iTunes.
And it says file not found.
So I figure, well maybe I should just restart iTunes. I do.
File. Not. Found.
So I open my computer and breathe a sigh of relief because the drive is still listed. My G: drive is from freshman year and has basically been on every day since then. I click on it to find the files, only everything is missing. As in, there are holes all over the place where files should be. And my MP3 folder is 0GBs. My video folder with the majority of my Gackt clips isn't even on the drive, it has been replaced with emptiness.
I always did say I was going to back my music and my videos up over break onto my father's server.
But then I reasoned to myself, self, you have only restarted your computer once since you've returned from break. You keep meaning to give the old drive a break at night and forgetting to turn it off. So I turned it off, trying to explain aloud that it surely would be fine. I felt a bit ill, that lightheadedness, but my heart, interestingly enough, was not pounding as one would imagine. Perhaps it was the defeatism.
Computer restarts, and I open My Computer once more. Driver still listed. Then I went and opened it, relieved to see that I did in fact have all of the files there and present. But did they work? iTunes pulled up, it reminds me to update and I figure I may as well do it if I lost everything. But I go to play Gackt's Vanilla because I figure, if it plays it's a wonderful song to hear, and if it doesn't, well then I really know all is lost given how much I play it.
I have never been so happy to hear his fucking voice as I was in that very moment.
So I will be bringing it home and backing it, along with my other essential files, since, as I was talking with Naro-san, I realised I have an insane amount of images that I'd be at a loss to replace. Of course, I just tallied up my amount of Gackt and it is ~63GBs. It makes the 2,850 pictures seem kind of tame next to the amount of frickin' videos I have of the boy. But when you look at it in terms of my 600GBs of available space, it isn't that bad. ::grins::
The only other thing I have to add to that is I'm looking forward to the weekend and that I got irked in class because this halfwit (the very same who made me ill with his body odor last week, in fact) insisted that it was impossible to dream in the third person and everyone had a good laugh at the fact that of course everyone dreams in pictures. I often dream in third person, sometimes watching myself outside of myself, and I never fucking see anything. I don't know why I've become so frustrated recently with not being able to see mentally, but I was feeling it tonight. Because I can't explain how I dream, which is absurd given how many I have. I'd love to see someone else's dream just for comparison, but that's not happening.
Thus, I will go to bed and rejoice in the fact that I have my lovely G: drive in all its glory, and I will turn it off as soon as I'm done, bring it home, and save everything. I'm not so stupid as to wave it off as a one time thing (especially also seeing how files corrupt on drives, demonstrated by Lily-sama's tempermental one), given the age of it and the fact I have no idea how long externals last.
I will take this as a warning and sleep soundling knowing that all is as it should be for once and that this week and month could always have been worse.
When that something is backing up 85.59GBs of music, it is something one does not want to feel at any time, let alone at this hour, sick as I am, and having to get up in a mere four hours. I thought, instead of updating my iPod in the morning, I would take care of it now while I straightened up the room a little since my roomie's parents are coming by. It finished surprisingly quick, so I ejected it (because it doesn't disconnect on its own) the proper way and then I went to play a song. And it said file not found. So I of course quickly go to Gackt, because those files are well known to my iTunes.
And it says file not found.
So I figure, well maybe I should just restart iTunes. I do.
File. Not. Found.
So I open my computer and breathe a sigh of relief because the drive is still listed. My G: drive is from freshman year and has basically been on every day since then. I click on it to find the files, only everything is missing. As in, there are holes all over the place where files should be. And my MP3 folder is 0GBs. My video folder with the majority of my Gackt clips isn't even on the drive, it has been replaced with emptiness.
I always did say I was going to back my music and my videos up over break onto my father's server.
But then I reasoned to myself, self, you have only restarted your computer once since you've returned from break. You keep meaning to give the old drive a break at night and forgetting to turn it off. So I turned it off, trying to explain aloud that it surely would be fine. I felt a bit ill, that lightheadedness, but my heart, interestingly enough, was not pounding as one would imagine. Perhaps it was the defeatism.
Computer restarts, and I open My Computer once more. Driver still listed. Then I went and opened it, relieved to see that I did in fact have all of the files there and present. But did they work? iTunes pulled up, it reminds me to update and I figure I may as well do it if I lost everything. But I go to play Gackt's Vanilla because I figure, if it plays it's a wonderful song to hear, and if it doesn't, well then I really know all is lost given how much I play it.
I have never been so happy to hear his fucking voice as I was in that very moment.
So I will be bringing it home and backing it, along with my other essential files, since, as I was talking with Naro-san, I realised I have an insane amount of images that I'd be at a loss to replace. Of course, I just tallied up my amount of Gackt and it is ~63GBs. It makes the 2,850 pictures seem kind of tame next to the amount of frickin' videos I have of the boy. But when you look at it in terms of my 600GBs of available space, it isn't that bad. ::grins::
The only other thing I have to add to that is I'm looking forward to the weekend and that I got irked in class because this halfwit (the very same who made me ill with his body odor last week, in fact) insisted that it was impossible to dream in the third person and everyone had a good laugh at the fact that of course everyone dreams in pictures. I often dream in third person, sometimes watching myself outside of myself, and I never fucking see anything. I don't know why I've become so frustrated recently with not being able to see mentally, but I was feeling it tonight. Because I can't explain how I dream, which is absurd given how many I have. I'd love to see someone else's dream just for comparison, but that's not happening.
Thus, I will go to bed and rejoice in the fact that I have my lovely G: drive in all its glory, and I will turn it off as soon as I'm done, bring it home, and save everything. I'm not so stupid as to wave it off as a one time thing (especially also seeing how files corrupt on drives, demonstrated by Lily-sama's tempermental one), given the age of it and the fact I have no idea how long externals last.
I will take this as a warning and sleep soundling knowing that all is as it should be for once and that this week and month could always have been worse.