Hi, Baukjen here.

Just over five years ago, when my eldest child (Oliver) was born, we took hundreds of pictures with our digital camera. Of course I sent quite a few to our families and friends. Nine months later we were on holiday in the South of France where we rented a villa. One day, while we were in the Villa, some people broke in and stole the first things they could get their hands on to. Everything was replaceable including the laptop but to my horror I had only saved the digital images in one place - my laptop. I had lost all Oliver's pictures. Of course friends and family emailed me what I had emailed them but there were only 10 or so pictures, the majority (especially the private ones) were lost for good. To this day this makes me sad and annoyed at myself for not doing a back up. A friend of ours has unfortunately experienced the same thing however she had backed all the images up on her husband's laptop. Very unfortunately over Easter her husband brought his laptop home, their house was broken in to and both laptops were stolen. So she too has lost the photos. Please back your photos up in a safe location so you won't experience this yourself if your laptop get stolen, lost etc.