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10/19/2005 01:56:32 PM · #1 |
| Ever heard the subject line before .... me too. I make my living with photography, but I got lulled into that proverbial sense of security. Last night we had a power failure in my neighborhood. When the power came back on, the computer, which had been running when the power failed, attempted to reboot itself. In the midst of that reboot, the power failed a second time. I am extremely ignorant to the complexities of software, hardware or the programming thereof but the consequence of the experience was to have C drive wiped clean. I had several folders on the desktop that contained photographs in various stages of process. One folder had 3 gig of images I had been shooting and processing for 2 months for a photographic coffee table-style book on macros of insects. All all all gone. I am a sick man today. This was some of the best macro work I had ever done including some rare and perhaps no longer obtainable species of insects. It is true what they say - once burned, twice learned. I even had a partitioned harddrive areaa that was unaffected in all this, but because it takes a few extra mouse clicks to save into that partitioned area, I chose to keep files on the desktop. Be careful with your images and add me to the list of people warning you to backup your images and store in a safe area. I never thought it could happpen to me and I will tell you... it produces a feeling not unlike losing a member of my family. |
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10/19/2005 02:04:51 PM · #2 |
Jaysus... I keep all mine on an external hard drive that I only plug in to power and connect to computer when I'm transferring images. Current images also live on the 'puter's hard drive, but copies are on the external.
That's a serious blow, man. I feel for ya. Somethingt just as bad happened to me in the analog world; not long after I retired as an active pro I closed down the studio completely (sold it actually) and moved all my stuff to my house. This was Southern California, a dry environment. I had everything nicely packed, prints and negs in archival boxes, and put it all in the basement, neatly, on pallets 6 inches above the floor.
We went on a 2-week vacation and during that time a pipe burst and the basement flooded to a depth of 4-5 feet...
Lost everything; prints, negatives, magazines with my work in them, a few lenses etc, you name it, all submerged for over a week. Fortunately the Sinar-P and the Nikons were in the office upstairs, but still... A lifetime of work, disappeared.
So I feel for you very directly.
Robt.
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10/19/2005 02:15:17 PM · #3 |
Been procrastinating about backing up, but after hearing this, I've gotten off my rear and done it.
Sorry to hear about losing all the stuff. I'd give you a hug, but I'm not sure it'd help that much...
Sara |
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10/19/2005 02:55:57 PM · #4 |
Bummer to hear dude. If the images are truely worth trying to save, before you reformat or reinstall or anything, take that harddrive down to a shop that does data recovery. Technically speaking, the images are most likely still there, there just isn't anything pointing to them. Data recovery can mostly likey fix that. You should be able to get some or maybe all images back. Good luck.
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10/19/2005 03:00:03 PM · #5 |
Sucks big time. Backing up is in our workflow - download, backup, edit, backup, put online. :) We have the originals AND the final edits for every shoot we do. I think it's easier to do when you are working on that session rather than once a month or something.
For the click-happy non pro, backing up is hard to remember - I used to use one of those online reminder services after losing 8000 photos.
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10/19/2005 03:01:06 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by ScreamingToad:
Bummer to hear dude. If the images are truely worth trying to save, before you reformat or reinstall or anything, take that harddrive down to a shop that does data recovery. Technically speaking, the images are most likely still there, there just isn't anything pointing to them. Data recovery can mostly likey fix that. You should be able to get some or maybe all images back. Good luck. |
Agreed! It's worth a try - friends of ours thought they had lost everything, and their circumstances were similar to yours, but they took the hard drive to someone they knew, and ended up retrieving nearly everything.
Can't hurt to try!
Terribly sorry to hear about it though - it is sickening to think about. |
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10/19/2005 03:17:40 PM · #7 |
I know what you feel too. I was bilding up a portfolio in health care images for an exibition in the next month. Two month ago the same happened to me. C drive, grafic board and power staion all blew up. I did backup in a non regular basis.
Know is part of my workflow. A copy of the originals. Then when workin I'll go saving to dvd-rw and then two final copyies to dvd. Then erase the rw to another time.
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10/19/2005 03:17:53 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by lhall:
Originally posted by ScreamingToad:
Bummer to hear dude. If the images are truely worth trying to save, before you reformat or reinstall or anything, take that harddrive down to a shop that does data recovery. Technically speaking, the images are most likely still there, there just isn't anything pointing to them. Data recovery can mostly likey fix that. You should be able to get some or maybe all images back. Good luck. |
Agreed! It's worth a try - friends of ours thought they had lost everything, and their circumstances were similar to yours, but they took the hard drive to someone they knew, and ended up retrieving nearly everything.
Can't hurt to try!
Terribly sorry to hear about it though - it is sickening to think about. |
I took the harddrive to computer serviceman first thing this morning. He was the one to inform me that C was all gone. He explained things to me, but I understood little technically. Then he showed me the data readout that C drive had full capacity, no space taken up. The partitioned D and E drives showed used areas unavailable (meaning there were still stored items there.) But this place did not specialize in data retrieval. I might look into that. Thanks for the idea. |
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10/19/2005 03:34:00 PM · #9 |
wow, definitely bring it to a competent service technician. if the data is/was there it still is. my friend has recovered data on his hd from 2 formats previous.
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10/19/2005 04:34:13 PM · #10 |
| Take it too a specialist if it is important. I had some genealogy information on a drive that died (really died, and they were able to get the information off. In my case it cost about 500.00 but was worth it too me. |
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10/19/2005 04:53:37 PM · #11 |
| wow. I hate to say I know how you feel, but I know how you feel. My puter took a dump about a month and like you, I lost everything. Always meant to back up, but, well, you know. When I replaced the puter witjh a really fast HP a1040n, the first extra thing I bought was a 300 gig external hard drive with a backup button. Much easier to hit a button when youre done for the day and let it do my back up for me, then shut the puter down until tomorrow. Now I have not only a back up for my important files, but a copy of my entire hard drive. The inital bsck up took about 5-6 hours. Now when I back up it only replaces what has been changed, and takes minutes. for $180 you can't beat it. You might be able to find it cheaper, but I felt the need to get it NOW.It's an ACCOMDATA if Anyone wants to know. |
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