Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Devastation

Up to this point I have not posted without at least one picture, but this morning Jeremy woke me up to tell me that my computer had a fatal error last night and made him do a full system recovery. I don't have any pictures. My pictures and videos are gone! I am practically sick to my stomach. I hadn't done a back up since before Kaden was born. Everything is wiped out. Now of course I realize that there is stuff on places like this and MySpace, I had printed some and scrapbooked a few. But most of them are gone. I don't have the videos of the first time Kaden crawled that I hadn't blogged yet, or the videos of him as a newborn kicking and 'talking'. The pictures that I post online have been shrunk, so when I try to reconstruct my calendar for the next year I am going to have to do something different because my pictures that I recover from here won't be clear when stretched out to an 8x10.
So, let my devastation be a lesson to you. Back up your pictures today! You can bet I will be doing a monthly back up from here on out. I am working at trying to be thankful that at least I will be able to have something when I complete the tedious process of downloading individual pictures off the Internet. Hmm, that didn't sound very thankful did it... well it is still a work in progress, I don't feel thankful right now.
This is turning into a whiny ramble, so I will sign off now. I hope you have a better morning then I did.

3 comments:

  1. mozy.com
    simple, cheap, effective.

    Sometimes you can recover files after a system recovery, although no guarantees. You can try one of these programs, it might turn up nothing, it might get you one or two photos:
    CONVAR:
    http://www.pcinspector.de/Sites/file_recovery/download.htm?language=1
    Restoration:
    http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html

    Sorry that it happens, back up! Mozy.com! :)

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  2. Oh my word, that's terrible! I hope Eric's suggestion gets you a few of them back. This reaffirms my desire for a back up hard drive!

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