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  1. "Basically, if a file on your computer can only be opened by a specific piece of software, and that software is controlled by a single company, you should probably export it to an open format. It's the only way to future-proof it."

    You don't say 🤷

    Some time ago, I was able to restore about 3 years (2004 onwards) worth of personal notes from a backup on CD-ROM, because the notes were stored as plain text files by my personal wiki back then. They now reside in my #pkm tool.

    wired.com/story/how-to-properl

    #FileFormats #Archive #LongTermStorage

  2. Discussing over #ArchivingPhotos.

    How do you do that.

    I stored and lost digital #photos

    * in programs (and their proprietary format) that don't exist anymore today
    * on DAT tapes
    * on DVD-RAM where someone promised me 100 years
    * on USB sticks
    * on USB hard drives
    * on image services on the internet
    * on CF-Cards
    * on SD-Cards

    and this way i have lost Pictures that today i really miss.

    Do you have good strategies for that? #archive #backup #longtermstorage

    Plz RT for reach....

  3. GitHub, the world's largest open-source software site, just had mounds of data stored in the permafrost chamber of an old coal mine deep in an Arctic mountain for 1,000 years #github #1000years #longtermstorage #storage
    bit.ly/2CUAKZm