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Post by gramma on Apr 17, 2020 20:12:00 GMT
I'm sitting here this morning cleaning up computer files. Move this here, move that there, delete that.
OMG - I deleted everything on my external hard drive. Everything!!! Pictures, cut files, sample layouts.
Then I remembered - I can restore from the trash bin.
I'm walking away from this monster and going to sew.
Whew!
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Post by Neisey on Apr 17, 2020 20:43:10 GMT
Yup...but I somehow accidentally deleted from the recycle bin...had to buy a recovery program and spend hours bringing them back...funny cuz it took all of 3 seconds to delete YEARS of photos!
Glad yours were safe after all.
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Post by joblackford on Apr 17, 2020 22:02:12 GMT
Oh my goodness, definitely walk away! That must’ve been the WORST feeling ever.
I always get very stressed out by cleaning up digital photos and files and deleting things, even when I’m sure I have a couple of backups. Gotta back up those back-ups too...
glad you were able to rescue everything!!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2020 23:36:53 GMT
I was moving files from my computer to a back up (external) hard drive. Somehow deleted almost 2 years of photos. 2015-2017 gone. Tried to recover using various programs, finally took everything to Kroll Ontrack, estimate to get my data back? Two grand. 2000. Sigh. Nope, maybe when I win the lottery.
So yes, deep breaths, walk away, lol. I was being quick, not paying attention etc...
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Post by scrapaddict702 on Apr 18, 2020 0:22:39 GMT
Yes, but somehow because I got adware on my computer. Months (including major holidays and birthdays) of my son's photos VANISHED. I was having a massive meltdown and even my husband who is good with computers couldn't figure it out. Eventually, I thought to do a search from the windows icon for some of them and found them as hidden (they showed up in my search results but were greyed out). Basically, the adware holds your stuff ransom (though I never received a ransom demand) and in this case I was very fortunate enough that it wasn't something impossible to figure out on my own and was able to uncheck the hide box (which is actually a feature for most folders). I was pregnant with my second at the time and the hormones from that just compounded the whole thing. It was awful and I cannot tell you how relieved I felt when I was able to recover them.
I have lost things in the past before (husband formatted my computer, but if you have an external drive attached, formatting saw the external devices as the primary ones and completely erased it) and while I was able to recover some of the things lost, most of it was never salvaged...thankfully it was wayyyy before we had kids and it was mostly old school work and music, what photos were on it weren't ones I couldn't live without.
The only incident that really hurts is I had an old SD card from an early smartphone corrupt...most of the contents were salvageable, but the video of my oldest right after he was born was corrupted. It was something that never ended up transferred to another device (I looked for hours trying to see if I had saved it anywhere else)...and while the video still plays, the sound of his first cries are gone for good. We never recorded that for the other two kids...don't know why, probably just caught up in the moment.
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Post by AussieMeg on Apr 18, 2020 1:30:27 GMT
I've had two horrible experiences - First one, my brother was trying to fix something on my computer and somehow accidentally deleted every photo and video from the hard drive. Because it was such a big amount of data, it was immediately deleted, and did NOT go into the recycle bin first. Luckily I had most of the photos backed up, but there were still a couple of years worth that were deleted with no back up. I had to buy recovery software. I think I got most of it back, but I know I lost lots of videos.
The second incident was when one of my external hard drives died. It had about 5 years - and hundreds of hours - of Project 365 digital layouts on it, that are lost. Luckily all of the photos on there were backed up on CDs and another EHD, but the layouts were not backed up anywhere.
I am currently in the process of backing up all of my photos, videos, digital scrapbooking products and layouts to my iCloud. All new photos are uploaded straight to the cloud. I am about 80% done. The photos are currently stored on 2 external hard drives, but I don't trust EHDs anymore. I have already had two die. One of my current EHDs is on the way out, even though it is quite new. I can only get a handful of photos off at a time, and then it crashes. SOOOOOO frustrating.
All of that to say - people, don't trust external hard drives with irreplaceable photos and documents. Get them onto a cloud based storage as well.
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Post by anniefb on Apr 18, 2020 4:04:53 GMT
No but I've come close to it - like deleting the wrong thing but at least it's still in the trash.
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Post by jameynz on Apr 19, 2020 5:05:30 GMT
I lent my camera to my second son and his girlfriend at the time - told them specifically NOT to delete anything off the cards.
When I got my camera back, I decided to download my holiday photos - the whole family, all 6 of us - Canada, cruise to Alaska, Disneyland in California, Hawaii - 2 weeks - ALL GONE.
The son claimed he did not delete anything.
Had to take all my camera cards to a data recovery company, pay a small fortune for them to recover the photos.
All photos are now uploaded to the cloud. But I felt sick - thought I had lost them all. It was to be the big family holiday - my sons were in their 20's, my daughter 14 - and I knew that we could never afford another holiday like this - and the kids would not want to go on holiday with us again (unless we paid for them and their partners!)
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Post by grammadee on Apr 19, 2020 16:46:28 GMT
So glad you got your photos back, gramma. This is why my computer hard drive is like my scrap room--not very well organized, but everything is THERE! |
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Post by breetheflea on Apr 19, 2020 23:06:10 GMT
DH rebuilt our PC last fall and I lost access to Picasa (as in it's not able to be downloaded to the new computer) so I had to buy new software. I was happily tagging photos when I discovered nothing from before 2008 was in my files. Yes, I freaked out just a little although DH assured me they were on the old hard drive and we could get to it if we needed and we also pay for a back up service for our computer. I finally found them in some weird folder of a subfolder of a subfolder after A LOT of digging. My sister lost all her son's baby pictures in a computer crash in 2005, she only has the one's she printed  |
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Post by LisaDV on Apr 20, 2020 1:55:59 GMT
Oh, wow! So glad you remembered you could get it back.walking away was definitely called for.
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Post by artisticscrapper on Apr 20, 2020 2:10:37 GMT
All these stories remind me to be careful about hitting the delete button. Sorry some of you lost pictures.
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