What do I do about this computer problem I had today?

[jennifer_bloom]

Today I accidentally deleted my favourite file folder, leading to around 40 hours of lost work, and then I used trouble shooting methods to restore the file to the condition it was around 10 hours ago, leading to around 2 hours of lost labour, as opposed to 40 hours of lost labour.

I was just thinking, that if my file was bigger, like, let's say, If I had invested 9 months into that file folder and then accidentally deleted it, it would be a bigger loss.

I now want to create duplicate folders and duplicate files where I cut and paste content from my current files into another place so I will not lose all my work if a computer problem arises and I somehow lose my current database, but it seems time consuming to duplicate everything, especially when you are working on 12 files a day.

[exitseven]

There are 3rd party backup tools that you can use to automatically backup your important files to another drive.
Windows has a built in backup app that will synch folders to backup storage space in the cloud ot onto a USB drive.

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO😎

[DryGermanGuy]

Get yourself a cheap NAS system and have it daily or hourly sync with your work folder (s).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-attached_storage

[Xawyx-2]

You should always save your data on USB, or some other media, DVD, removable hard drive etc.