Mini SHTF event happened and it's making me feel like a newbie.

[DIM TIM]

I had a mini disaster happen sometime within the last few days that I haven't been on the computer, and I'm not sure how it happened, how to fix it, or even if it can be fixed just short of starting all over.
ALL THE SITES IN MY FAVORITES WINDOW HAVE DISAPPEARED FROM THE AOL PROGRAM I NORMALLY RUN.

I've tried a restore back in time to a week and a half ago, but no help there. It's like they never were there at all. Fortunatly I have another AOL program that I never deleted (9.0 VR), and a number of the sites are in the favorites window there. Of course there are quite a number of obsolete, deleted, and junk sites there as well since I don't use that program as much as I did the other.

The window has a 1500 site capacity, and I'm pretty sure I was at about 13-1400 sites or so before this happened. I should have had all this backed-up on a disk or a flash drive, and all the site addresses wrote down in a notebook to back-up the disk or flash drive, but "hind sight being 20/20".......

So, it's just like starting over from scratch, and discovering all those sites again (at least I hope all of them). And this time I'll make sure I not only have them in both programs, but backed-up as a hard copy as well.

[justanothergunnut]

1300-1400 in your favorites? I just don't have that kind of time...;)

[Rmplstlskn]

People still use AOL?

[justanothergunnut]

and not to be cruel or insensitive but I just don't see losing my internet favorites bookmarks as a SHTF event.. Now if you were running a home based business and the system crashed causing you to lose your entire company records then that would be a event. Im assuming you had tons of links to prepping related sites and downloads for PDF's and such and sure that sucks but your brain is a far more efficient storage media.... Learn it,, Practice it,, Live it.....

[DIM TIM]

and not to be cruel or insensitive but I just don't see losing my internet favorites bookmarks as a SHTF event.. Now if you were running a home based business and the system crashed causing you to lose your entire company records then that would be a event. Im assuming you had tons of links to prepping related sites and downloads for PDF's and such and sure that sucks but your brain is a far more efficient storage media.... Learn it,, Practice it,, Live it.....

Yeah, you hit the nail on the head so to speak. Problem is my brain gets so overloaded with the day to day stuff that i used my favorites as a sort of survival and preparedness library. I've got a couple other programs that have a small bit of it on them, but not like my one I lost. I'm hoping it is just somewhere else in the system, but if it is...as tech ignorant as I am it could take months to find it if at all.

I'm not at a total loss though. Many of the subjects are just a keyword away, and it would only be a matter of time before I find all the info again. And like I said in my original post...I'll back up all the info with a hard copy this time around. And just to be safe, I'll put those copies in my "Binders-O-Knowledge" for safe keeping.

[jimmycthemd]

Try something like keepass or keysafe. It stores url/password in an encrypte database on your computer. You can make as many copies of the database that you need.

[DIM TIM]

Yep, lesson learned.......BACK-UPS ARE IMPORTANT. :o