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28 September 2008

I just lost all of my photos. →[More:]

I was editing some photos on a friend's mac, and it completely froze up. Had to give it a hard shutdown.

As a result, it somehow corrupted my entire backup folder of photos since 2006. Upon connecting the external to my PC, it booted up, and deleted the corrupt folders (they were, apparently, completely unreadable).

Serves me right for not ever backing them up onto DVD.

I kind of a mess right now.
:(

post by: CitrusFreak12 at: 18:34 | 23 comments

Oh no! I'm so sorry to hear that, CF.

posted by mdonley 28 September | 18:35

Sadly, you now no longer exist.

posted by jonmc 28 September | 18:42

Jeezus, dude, that's awful. I'd be a wreck.

I am so buying blank DVDs tomorrow.

posted by BoringPostcards 28 September | 18:44

Oh god, that sucks so hard.

posted by sperose 28 September | 18:54

OMG, that really is one of my worst nightmares. I am so, so, so sorry to hear about this.

posted by redvixen 28 September | 18:57

I'm sorry. My photos are about the most important thing I have on my computer. Maybe a professional data recovery service could help?

Everyone should get at least an external hard drive for backing up the most important stuff. I use microsoft's synctoy on the PC (though I actually kind of hate it) for backing up stuff as it gets added to my photo archive. I find DVDs kind of a pain since I seem to have a hard time keeping them organized.

posted by DarkForest 28 September | 19:38

sorry to hear that man, it sucks

posted by Firas 28 September | 19:46

BUGGER

posted by goshling 28 September | 20:17

Oh, wow, I'm so sorry-that is unspeakably awful.

posted by bunnyfire 28 September | 20:23

:-(

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 28 September | 20:24

Oh no! I am so sorry!

posted by rhapsodie 28 September | 20:37

That's a cosmic bummer. You have all my sympathy. Backup backup backup etc. etc. etc. Multiple formats: external hard drive, DVDr, USB flash memory sticks, etc. BACKUP!!

posted by flapjax at midnite 28 September | 20:41

Drat. My sympathies. Lost all my stuff on a virus messed up computer a bunch of times. It sucks.

posted by nickyskye 28 September | 20:53

Citrusfreak, I am so sorry. This sucks. Your photos were so wonderful. You'll take more wonderful photos. I am so sorry.

posted by LoriFLA 28 September | 21:16

When I lose things, I find they're often in the last place you look.

Hope that helps! Good luck!

posted by Eideteker 28 September | 21:22

DDDDDD:

::hugs::

posted by casarkos 28 September | 21:31

That sucks!

Maybe you will start aging backwards now though...

posted by rmless2 28 September | 22:38

Thanks all. Bleh.
I still have my Flickr. I keep telling myself that. Though a lot of them are not the original resolutions, and as far as I know there's no easy way to download them all to your computer en masse.

At the moment, I'm in talks with a friend and fellow MeFite who owns a local computer repair place. He's got data recovery software. I don't want to get my hopes up, though. I'll let you know how it turns out.

posted by CitrusFreak12 28 September | 22:45

Good luck, CF.

posted by LoriFLA 28 September | 22:49

OH NO!

I'm sorry to hear this. I have my fingers crossed for you.

posted by gomichild 29 September | 00:04

Ouch! I had a friend who loved (original) Napster so much and had an encyclopedic knowledge of rarities from the 1950s and 1960s so he spent about two years diligently seeking out everything he could remember. And then his drive died on him.

He didn't have it in him to start over.

posted by stilicho 29 September | 01:42

It's possible you could recover them. Try testdisk, which I found via ask.me. We used it to recover some data from a partition that was hosed.

posted by theora55 29 September | 09:23

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

argh! *kicks things*

*makes resolution to actually USE the stupid .mac account that she pays for*

posted by lonefrontranger 29 September | 10:12

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