I'm calmer now than when I caused this little disaster on saturday..
through a series of hitting keys in error and then hitting one wrong
intentionally but wrongly I basically deleted most of the photos I
took with the Ist-d and K-5 ..
windoze Xp is my system. I say "most" because anything i thought was
actually good was put on smugmug, some were also put in different folders.
all the files were under two folders , that ended up as subdirectories
someplace they should not have been. in moving them around in Windows
explorer they got deleted in error.
Yes yes I stupidly said I really wanted to delete those files
not realizing the files I didn't mean to delete were sub-folders
of the one I did mean to delete.
These are/were on my 1 Terrabit external harddrive on E, none of them
are on my C drive.
The harddrive is seagate with memeo which I had as a trial and , alas,
never paid for when it came time to buy - nevermind why.. I didn't do it.
been told that even though I deleted the files they are really still
there (hear that a lot - after all I watch Bones and NCIS)
My files were always uploaded using the date shot as a subdirectory (um
"folder" in current parlance) under ALLPENTAXASOFFEB142011 or
ALLPentaxK5asofJuly2013
Unless I put them on smugmug, I've lost everything I shot with the K-5
between end of July and december5th.
LIkewise, if I didn't transfer images to a different folder or load to
smugmug, I lost all the photos between Feb142011 and february 26th, 2013
I wouldnt ahve written such detail here except I need to remember it..
So , is there any hope for recovery? I'm trying to convince myself
that if I didnt send a file to smugmug it wasnt worth much, but I
know I had a lot of stuff photographed that I intended to list for
sale that was lost.... but I know I had some stuff that was kind
important that didnt go to smugmug.
Anything I took with the little darkside camera is safe
what do I do?
ann the idiot
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