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unlikely to happen(spoilers)

posted 16 years ago by rodolfoul
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When alex lost his book as the old lady threw his notebook on the fire.

If you are working on something important it is just natural that you have lots of backup copies. In my case, when I have an important work I keep a copy on my email, another one on my pen drive and another one on the computer from the university I study. That makes a total of 4 copies(counting the one in my main computer). All which is a prevention from an accidental deletion or anything else.

Now imagine a book, which probably took him some months to write, it would need even more security compared to my example, but he didnt have even one single extra copy.

[–] peter-r-odder 16 years ago

But he was just comming home after being out writing all day, he had probably not had any opportunity to copy the work from that day.
He could have brought a memory stick or something, but then again Alex is not the brightest of people.

[–] arkanatarish 11 years ago

But even if destroyed. There is really no problem, sending the destroyed computer to IBAS, or similar services. They usually can recreate even the worst destroyed computer disk.
They could do that long before 2002, when this movie was made!

As a writer, i even guess that his insurance would cover that recreation of his lost data!

A friend of mine, lost all his writings and photos, when his house went up in flames. The salvagers/reovators, located the burned out ruin of his computer from the ruins. He got absolutely all his data back. Even the catalog of photos, that he deleted by accident, some weeks before the fire...

[–] rmontro 11 years ago

The first thing I thought when I saw that he was writing his book on his laptop was that he had to be keeping backups of something that important on a flash drive or something.

Then of course, later in the movie it gets destroyed. It was just incredibly reckless of him not to back that up at periodic intervals.