Back in 2018, my entire portfolio crashed right before a big gallery submission in Portland.

I was in my home studio when my main hard drive failed, so I spent the next 48 hours trying to recover files from old cloud backups and a sketchy external drive my brother lent me, which honestly taught me more about digital asset management than any tutorial ever did, so what's your worst tech disaster story with an art project?

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laurabennett14d ago

Did you actually get the files back in time for the gallery, or did you have to scramble and redo everything from scratch? I lost a whole animation project once because I only backed up to one cloud service that had a sync error. Had to explain to a client why their work was just gone.

dylan41314d ago

Honestly, that sounds like a good lesson though. You ever think some tech fails are just part of the process?