Before Steve and Jennie Smith moved across the country, they gave Jennie's mother a computer and set up an e-mail account for weekly updates. After the couple had their first child, Jennie's mother enjoyed receiving photos and recent stories of her new granddaughter. When the e-mails became more frequent and the photo attachments grew substantially, Grandma's e-mail account couldn't handle the large file sizes. One day, without warning, Steve and Jennie's home computer crashed and they lost many irreplaceable digital photos of their baby girl.
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