Disaster Has Struck - Lost Images
This is a great lesson for all of us.
A couple of days ago I lost a whole stack of photos. I am certain they were all fantastic photographs, probably the best ones ever but now we will never know.
Yep, lost the lot, was doing too many things at once and clicked "do you really want to cancel upload now " by mistake ! Or it might even have been that dreaded word delete ! I was too annoyed to notice ! And in disbelief as well that they had vanished into the ether or in my case the card slot !
You know the score, not happening fast enough so you whizz off on to the next interesting thing on your computer while its happening and click back and forth, do a spot of editing, check on progress, zoom back again then wham - too late. That dreaded red cross where a photo should be. Not even in the deleted box, well they wouldn't be would they when you have clicked cancel upload followed by delete. :(
NEVER upload your pictures to your computer in a great rush and do a stack of other things at the same time and especially NEVER tick the delete images after upload in this frame of mind. At least you could rescue them from your camera card if you have not been as stupid as to do what I have just done !
Yes, yes, I know I should know better but I was so keen to see them all and get stuck into editing the ones I quickly spotted as being fantastically amazing in the display. No amount of griping could bring them back and I sat in front of my screen expecting them to magically reappear. Hell, I even downloaded a program to retrieve lost images and sat waiting for them to pop up whilst I sat there in despair.
Then I remembered, the more mistakes you make the quicker you learn and the bigger the mistakes, the more pointed the lesson ! OK, I must be a slow learner but the point is well and truly learnt now :)) Make sure you don't do it :)
I have enough trouble finding the ones that are actually in there so naturally I thought I had just misplaced them and after trolling through my hard drive and turning up practically every file I had to face the inevitable. I am a twit who should have twigged long before but I prefer to think of it as being optimistic that things would turn out. In this case not so :)
There are quite a few places now you are able to keep your images safe. They are no use to you if your computer disappears, crashes or if you can't access them so ensure that images that are precious to you are somewhere you can find. Think about loading some of them on the various web albums, place some on your blogs or put some on Flickr or any of the others. You can share them with friends or keep them private if you prefer but at least you will still have them.
A couple of days ago I lost a whole stack of photos. I am certain they were all fantastic photographs, probably the best ones ever but now we will never know.
Yep, lost the lot, was doing too many things at once and clicked "do you really want to cancel upload now " by mistake ! Or it might even have been that dreaded word delete ! I was too annoyed to notice ! And in disbelief as well that they had vanished into the ether or in my case the card slot !
You know the score, not happening fast enough so you whizz off on to the next interesting thing on your computer while its happening and click back and forth, do a spot of editing, check on progress, zoom back again then wham - too late. That dreaded red cross where a photo should be. Not even in the deleted box, well they wouldn't be would they when you have clicked cancel upload followed by delete. :(
NEVER upload your pictures to your computer in a great rush and do a stack of other things at the same time and especially NEVER tick the delete images after upload in this frame of mind. At least you could rescue them from your camera card if you have not been as stupid as to do what I have just done !
Yes, yes, I know I should know better but I was so keen to see them all and get stuck into editing the ones I quickly spotted as being fantastically amazing in the display. No amount of griping could bring them back and I sat in front of my screen expecting them to magically reappear. Hell, I even downloaded a program to retrieve lost images and sat waiting for them to pop up whilst I sat there in despair.
Then I remembered, the more mistakes you make the quicker you learn and the bigger the mistakes, the more pointed the lesson ! OK, I must be a slow learner but the point is well and truly learnt now :)) Make sure you don't do it :)
I have enough trouble finding the ones that are actually in there so naturally I thought I had just misplaced them and after trolling through my hard drive and turning up practically every file I had to face the inevitable. I am a twit who should have twigged long before but I prefer to think of it as being optimistic that things would turn out. In this case not so :)
There are quite a few places now you are able to keep your images safe. They are no use to you if your computer disappears, crashes or if you can't access them so ensure that images that are precious to you are somewhere you can find. Think about loading some of them on the various web albums, place some on your blogs or put some on Flickr or any of the others. You can share them with friends or keep them private if you prefer but at least you will still have them.
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