Outsidetheblocks

No one ever wants to see their students in tears when the Minecraft project that they've poured countless hours of passion, creativity and hard work into suddenly disappears or will no longer open.  One lesson I took to heart in my 20 years in IT is that: " Hardware is replaceable, data is not ." Files can go missing or become corrupt for lots of reasons, and Minecraft projects are not immune to the quirks of technology. Unfortunately, in my experience working as a technology worker in the education sector, I do not see many educators or students working with a best practice file management and file backup methodology. When files go corrupt or missing, even we techy people have only so many magic tricks that we can use to save the situation.   So, what can we do?  Well, in this post I'm going to be talking A LOT about backing up your files, but there's a few different concepts to cover, so I'm going to break down this article into several sections to help you ...