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Sidenote: I was in a band in High School that uploaded all its music to MySpace in 2006, and our only backups were a few CDs we had made; so when MySpace lost a

Sidenote: I was in a band in High School that uploaded all its music to MySpace in 2006, and our only backups were a few CDs we had made; so when MySpace lost all that [0], it was my first, most painful lesson about backing up important things multiple times. [0] https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/myspace-lost-music-809455/ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/myspace-lost-m...

franciscop 6y ago
I had recently lost some important data back then so luckily I was already backing up data by then! Though now I have kind of the opposite problem, I have too much data and it's difficult to navigate through it all :)
CharlesW 6y ago
Have you tried Internet Archive? You might be one of the lucky ones. https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/4/18295014/myspace-lost-songs-dragon-project-tracks-web-archive-internet-archive-450000-recovery https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/4/18295014/myspace-lost-song...
- setgree 6y ago
  Alas, I have tried, we were not among the lucky.
  - clw8 6y ago
    Same with me and my Geocities page from 1997 :(
UShouldBWorking 6y ago
Nobody lost anything from myspace that they actively didn't want. For over a year they announced the change was coming and to download and back up you stuff. Even now a lot is still backup on archive. Why are people so desperate to play the victim all the time?
TrackerFF 6y ago
Back when ISPs etc. would give you free (2-20 MB) storage, we'd use them for hosting personal websites, or just storage space - sometimes we'd register xx new/duplicate accounts, and we'd have a couple of hundred megs for storage. Anyway, I blindly hosted a lot of personal stuff like that from 1998 - 2008, and never cared to do any backups. But then one day, it was all gone forever - searched through my old email account, and found probably 5 remainder emails that the company was shutting down their services. Pictures, old demo songs, old websites, etc. And these days - it could all happen again, if google ever bans your account (so go ahead and backup everything)
krstffr 6y ago
This happened to me as well, so sad! I fell your pain.
yellowapple 6y ago
Yeah, high school was when I was first dicking around with FL Studio, and naturally I put it all up on MySpace without keeping track of the original MP3s. Unfortunately none of the stuff I put up got included in that Dragon Hoard archive...

franciscop 6y ago

I had recently lost some important data back then so luckily I was already backing up data by then! Though now I have kind of the opposite problem, I have too much data and it's difficult to navigate through it all :)

CharlesW 6y ago

Have you tried Internet Archive? You might be one of the lucky ones. https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/4/18295014/myspace-lost-songs-dragon-project-tracks-web-archive-internet-archive-450000-recovery https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/4/18295014/myspace-lost-song...

setgree 6y ago
Alas, I have tried, we were not among the lucky.
- clw8 6y ago
  Same with me and my Geocities page from 1997 :(

UShouldBWorking 6y ago

Nobody lost anything from myspace that they actively didn't want. For over a year they announced the change was coming and to download and back up you stuff. Even now a lot is still backup on archive. Why are people so desperate to play the victim all the time?

TrackerFF 6y ago

Back when ISPs etc. would give you free (2-20 MB) storage, we'd use them for hosting personal websites, or just storage space - sometimes we'd register xx new/duplicate accounts, and we'd have a couple of hundred megs for storage. Anyway, I blindly hosted a lot of personal stuff like that from 1998 - 2008, and never cared to do any backups. But then one day, it was all gone forever - searched through my old email account, and found probably 5 remainder emails that the company was shutting down their services. Pictures, old demo songs, old websites, etc. And these days - it could all happen again, if google ever bans your account (so go ahead and backup everything)

krstffr 6y ago

This happened to me as well, so sad! I fell your pain.

yellowapple 6y ago

Yeah, high school was when I was first dicking around with FL Studio, and naturally I put it all up on MySpace without keeping track of the original MP3s. Unfortunately none of the stuff I put up got included in that Dragon Hoard archive...