When I left my last job, I made backups of all of my Outlook data (email,tasks,calendars), gave one copy to the other developer, left one copy one my laptop's hard drive, and made one copy for myself. This was all of the data that I had acquired in the five years I had worked there. The only thing I did not leave a copy of with the developer was the contacts that I had created, as most of them were personal. With all of this, the data spanned 9 CD's for each set.
When I went to load the contacts onto my new computer, I went looking for the CD's. I found disks 1-8. The last disk, the one I had made on my last day, was missing. It was also the one with the contact data on it. I wasn't completely out of this data, because I had uploaded some of the information to Plaxo. Unfortunately, not all, and some of what I had uploaded had changed, since my boss and a few other friends had changed companies, or moved. And some were just newer then the last push to Plaxo.
I had resigned myself to having to rebuild some of the information. I did not want it to happen again, so I again tied my email to Plaxo, and then set up bidirectional syncs with other resources, including my personal machine at home. This also allowed me to update the information to my iPod and my phone, which is a very nice addition.
I found the CDabout 30 minutes ago, while looking for something completely different.
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