Lesson learned

[hotwine]

Hard drive crashes are bad news for cellar software!

My hard drive debacle of the early summer wiped out both wine databases: Cellar! from CollectWare and Cellar Savant.... the former spanned maybe five years, the latter only a year or two. Although both were backed up onto CD-ROM, I discovered (too late) that the backups were faulty. Was able to recover a garbled text version of Cellar!, but C. Savant seems to be gone forever.

To anyone else using a formatted database to record their wine purchases, storage locations, prices paid and tasting notes, highly recommend you make backup text files frequently, like at least monthly, and preferably in paper form. The only (mostly) complete record of my TNs is now right here, on this board (sob, sniff...)

To err is human, but really screwing things up takes a computer!