VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Euphobia1|DATE|1372453228|CONTENT|The only glimmer of hope is that IT moves so fast these days that  data may be there held but is impossible to get at. Retrieval of even year old date is now getting very difficult indeed.  I found this out yesterday  when I wanted to re edit a new version of one part of a Children&#039;s TV series I made in 1986. It was my favourite and had won an  international award.

Obviously it was made on tape but I had digitised it back in 2009 and tape is still the archival method of choice as it lasts so I had two fairly safe options! Think again. The computer operating systems have changed at least four times since 2009 and so have all the plugs on the computers so I could not plug the old hard drive in.

I do have an old professional tape deck that still works but on this mini dvd tape the time code had become corrupted. Taking it off a DVD is not possible as it is compressed. All VHS tapes are over 30 years off and although I do still have them they are possibly covered in mould and would ruin the VHS head.

I thought my programme had gone forever and then I remembered I had an old version of iMovie 6.0.7 on an ancient lap top if I could find it. iMovie used to be magic until it was upgraded. The new version is useless. This version is as good as any professional app which is possibly why it was removed as it was free and it worked. Didn&#039;t need seconds of run up just went straight in and recorded and I got my four minutes. 

So governments may store data today but getting at it in a year&#039;s time maybe tricky. Their Operating Systems are up graded too and so are their plugs.

Now I stopped in the middle of this so I expect to get that enchanting [i]spam bot [/i] message so I shall take precautions and save first! Here goes!

Yes I got the Error message! I should have been quite cross if I had lost al this!|EMAIL|jan@diytv.org|IP-ADDRESS|117.104.182.226|MODERATIONFLAG|