Learned my lesson though, all vids are now going to be backed up on external hard drives and the internet.
With my previous laptop I had a number of scares, and then when it died, my reaction was "HALP WE MUST SAVE MY VID COLLECTION oh and there was probably some other stuff on it too". We did recover everything, but after that I went so far as to start keeping vid records on paper (which I have now abandoned on grounds of impracticality), because I was horrified at the idea of losing all record of them in a single electrical storm. Good luck with restoring your collection! Over 1000 vids? That's a lot... I have less than 400 total.
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With my previous laptop I had a number of scares, and then when it died, my reaction was "HALP WE MUST SAVE MY VID COLLECTION oh and there was probably some other stuff on it too". We did recover everything, but after that I went so far as to start keeping vid records on paper (which I have now abandoned on grounds of impracticality), because I was horrified at the idea of losing all record of them in a single electrical storm. Good luck with restoring your collection! Over 1000 vids? That's a lot... I have less than 400 total.