Lost?
A Lesson learned!
Before the digital age I took 90% of my pics on transparancy film and developed them myself. About seven or eight years ago I began to scan all the noe aging slides and store them digitally. This is one from about 1977.
Two years ago I transferred them from my computers C drive to an external Hard Drive, thinking that they would be safe. NOT SO! 2 weeks ago the drive failed. Could not retrieve anything. Forty years work seemingly lost.
I didn't panic much!!! Spent a few nervous hours checking out file recovery software. Bought Sandisk RescuePro and set it to work. It took 48 hours to scan and retrieve the data from the failed disk and another 48 hours to save the files. But it worked! Even to the extent of retrieving Files I had deleted. Over 30,000 pictures recovered.
The moral is; DONT RELY ON A SINGLE DRIVE TO STORE YOUR PICS!! Copy them to Gold CD's as well. I am in the process of doing that right now.
Last week I bought two new 8gb Sandisk Compact Flash Cards. Each one has a voucher for a free download of RescuePro. I dont need them as I bought the software.
If you need to Rescue some pics from a failed disk send me a fotomail and the first 2 applicants can have the serial Numbers for RescuePro.
Hope you like this, it could well have been lost forever.
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sebastian romero 07/07/2009 17:41
Wonderful portrait, with some air of ages past. Congratulations for the dicovering...Hugs Sebas
Wayne Tsipouras 12/05/2009 23:33
A beautiful portrait, and wise advice. Several copies is a good idea.Soft tones and expression.
-Wayne
Claire L. 10/05/2009 21:05
A beautiful portrait...thankfully you did rescue it!Maybe I have to think, too, about an internet archive as Ede suggested...otherwise a nightmare comes true...
Kind regards, Claire
Adele D. Oliver 10/05/2009 1:22
A lovely natural and soft image ..... glad you managed to rescue your files!greetings, Adele
Jürgen Cron 09/05/2009 18:09
A smile to this Time Robert, I had a B/W photo lab, in my own darkroom it had me very great pleasure work.Often I have the special smell of the developer and photographic paper in the nose.
Beautiful old time.
yes I like your photo very much !
best regards and a beautiful Weekend for you,
Jürgen...
Deryck 09/05/2009 12:39
This is a lovely shot robert. It would indeed be a shame if you had lost some of your beautiful files. I am also in the process of trying to find a decent backup systemDeryck
Frederick Mann 09/05/2009 11:24
indeed
a very fine
sensitive portrait
(it's like a poem)
Ralph Bache 09/05/2009 10:08
Yes, this is the photographical worst case scenario. I have a archiv by flickr.com, a external community with 3000 GB personal capacity, 48 € for two years, this is affordable.The portrait is very natural and i like the soft mood. BW.
hrishikesh thakur 09/05/2009 6:18
++ ! very soft !