I have to tell you guys that I used to be the queen of backup when I was
working spec writing - and in the first few years of
working on photos and nothing else, but I've gotten sloppy in my
dotage... takes a wake up call..
Except that I have almost nothing that I shot in January with the ist
D , everything else seems to be on the drive... I'm
copying off the critical time frames on the other external.. and I'll go
get myself more gigs tomorrow.
I decided I needed to escape so went to the park and shot a couple of
things and I'm doing my work on my C drive... I've
got an acceptable mode of getting the files into a base folder. The
friendliest software is ACDSee For Pentax 3.0 - I had problems with
the Pentax browser and lab - specific error stuff I can't remember now.
I did shoot about 30 frames with the formated disk... and I got a nice
phone call
that was helpful from a list lurker I've kinda known for a while whose
help was
invaluable -- it is so much easier for me to get the info into my head
with back and forth
talking ....
He mentioned several possible good recovery things... one of which was
your suggestion.
But tonight I'm relaxin ...
IF you are on facebook, I put the photo news thingy with a link there..
some of you spotted it...
but if you arent the bottom line is a bunch of my photos from NY in the
70's are in this brief preview of a coming documentary
(and , of course, will be in the finished product ) six of them are at
the very beginning if you watch the vid... and two of them
are shown on the page with the text. I found out about it from one of
the guys whose
graffitti adorns the wall in the background. The photos were purchased
almost 5 years ago when I had a diffferent web page
and email or I'd probably have heard more about it from the director
/producer sooner. We are back in touch now.
He is fixing the credit to read Photo by Ann Sanfedele - at the moment
the credit says Photo Courtesy of Ann Sanfedel (no "e')
sigh. The other BW photo on the article is mine, but not the color one
of the Bandshell.
Here is the link to that:
http://dv-arts.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=191&Itemid=191
ann
Rob Studdert wrote:
On 24 January 2011 05:08, Ann Sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote:
I got back most of the stuff already, but nothing that I took in January...
good thing I got the photo submitted to the
book and the gallery and up on smugmug. I had accidentally reformatted the
2 gig cf card in the Pentax - Yes I knew I was reformatting, I jsut forgot
that I had the good stuff on that card.... and that was before the drive
crashed.
I'll accept crossed fingers... There is some goodnews about my photos but
I'll save that for another post
Good stuff, you mentioned before it worked after you left it
unplugged? Something that's not been considered yet is that the
external power supply could be on its way out? I have a 500GB
Freeagent drive of about the same vintage and it hasn't skipped a
beat, no errors and I regularly test it, I have a near new eternal
Iomega drive next to me and it's toast and I had a WD enterprise
server drive fail the other day. In other words it's a crapshoot, all
drives can fail, all you have to do is learn not to trust them! ;-) I
always have my data on two drives and when I get enough data to fill a
DVD I burn one of those off for safekeeping too, it's tedious but can
save you a great deal of heartache later. If you haven't shot on the
formatted card yet (or even if you have) there are a few programs that
you can run to recover files from it. I've got back deleted *istD
files from my old CF card a few times using
http://www.pcinspector.de/default.htm?language=1
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