Great, You are again the Queen of Backup. Assuming that's a good thing ;-)
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Ann Sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> >> > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
