All computer hard drives will eventually fail. If you're lucky, your drive will last until you replace your drive or computer with a higher capability unit. Otherwise, you'll be needing your backup. The chances of losing your files to a virus or a computer crash are fairly high.
While some web sites provide a feature to re-download your purchases and many digitizers will replace designs that you have not backed up, it can be a real pain to figure out which designs you had in the first place. And it really is your responsibility to maintain a back up of your data files, plus the files you need to get your computer running again in case of a
If you purchased a sweater from Penney's and lost it somewhere, you probably would not even consider going back to Penney's with your story, expecting to get a free replacement. It seems ridiculous to even consider it. But somehow we seem to expect something different with electronic files. Look at the number of people posting on Embird groups that they've lost the information that was sent to them. If a digitizer or a web site provides that service, keep in mind that it is privilege and not something they are required to do.
The people at Embird should be enhancing their product, not baby-sitting people who don't take the time to backup their passwords, etc.
You can back up your files to a CD, a flash drive, or an external hard drive. The price of external hard drives has decreased dramatically over the last year and they are easy to use. See Removable Media Tips
I use Carbonite.com as a real-time backup. Saved my bacon, because I hadn't backed up for a couple weeks, when my new 1 Terabyte disk failed, shortly after I finished moving my files from disk C: to the larger storage drive. Thank you, Carbonite, for saving the files.
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