In the past 6 years of my life I've probably taken well over 5000 photographs. That's actually most likely a massive understatement. I'd like to fancy myself something of an amateur photographer. And in those thousands of photos I've managed to take some terrible ones, some decent ones, some great ones, and some that are so good I can't even believe I took them. Luckily the vast majority of the great and amazing ones made it up onto this blog... because everything else is gone now.
I got an external hard drive last year and put all of my photos onto it for safe keeping. It was great! I used it in France, brought it home and used it in Ohio, moved to Boston and used it here several times and when I went to plug it in on Sunday it had unexpectedly died. Along with it went every photograph I've ever taken, every research paper I've ever written, a huge supply of downloaded TV shows and movies and my sanity.
From now on I guess I'll have to back up and then back up my back ups and then back those up. If anyone has any other ideas please let me know. And if you have a copy of any photos that I've taken could you please email them to me? Thanks!
RIP Dana's Photos & Papers
2 comments:
Oh no!! It's like when my laptop died in September. Very sad. I have everything on a usb drive, which I am totally afraid will stop working (especially since I lost the cap) but haven't done anything about it yet.
I did manage to put a bunch of stuff on CDs, so maybe that's a good way to save stuff? And also I've started printing out pictures at Fnac, though I didn't realize how small 6cmx9xcm was, so I have a bunch of tiny wallet pictures of my trip to the states, lol.
That's not cool at all. My suggestion is the same as above, back up once a month on a CD or DVD if you need the room. Just keep the backups on an empty spindle in a safe place and label them well.
I did a test recently: my computer was reformatted and I told the guy to save only the three folders that werew specifically for new, unsaved material; wipe everything else. Well, not quite "everything else" had been backed up, but thankfully it was just a few random music folders. I'm still pissed that it's gone forever, but it was a good lesson. I pretty much run most of my stuff off the external now, but I've revised my backup procedures since then.
Is there hope at all a local computer geek might be able to fix your external?
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