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Greta.B supply hoarder
Posts : 110 Join date : 2008-10-30 Age : 44 Location : Michigan
| Subject: Please! Back up your photos. Sat Jan 03, 2009 3:19 pm | |
| I swear we just talked about this and I was encouraging everyone to back up photos. Well...for the most part, mine are backed up. But, I've been using our external hard drive as our main storage device for pictures. Today, it fell on the floor and I can't access it. I haven't backed up the last 3 months or so onto DVDs as I've done with the rest of them. It is a sickening feeling.
When we get back from our trip, we're going to check Geek Squad or another computer place to see if they can recover everything. I don't care how much it will cost (well, sort of)...years and years of pictures and other files are on there. I just hope someone can access them.
So please, make a date TODAY to back up photos to CDs or DVDs. | |
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aimeeterry supply hoarder
Posts : 171 Join date : 2008-11-29 Age : 49 Location : TX
| Subject: Re: Please! Back up your photos. Sat Jan 03, 2009 3:39 pm | |
| oh that sucks big time! i hope you get them back. i will make a date today! | |
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Greta.B supply hoarder
Posts : 110 Join date : 2008-10-30 Age : 44 Location : Michigan
| Subject: Re: Please! Back up your photos. Sat Jan 03, 2009 3:50 pm | |
| Well...Jason has called around. It could be anywhere from a $250 "easy" fix up to several thousand dollars. As much as I love my photos and all of the other files I had on there, we don't have thousands to burn. So, we might just have to chalk this one up to experience.
And, I am 99% certain I'll be getting a flickr pro account or some other online storage system for all of my photos. My stomach hurts. | |
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mom2ee supply hoarder
Posts : 138 Join date : 2008-09-11 Location : Louisiana
| Subject: Re: Please! Back up your photos. Sat Jan 03, 2009 5:54 pm | |
| oh, i have stomach pains just thinking about this. have you printed your photos anywhere else but home? just thinking they might have backup copies. but thanks for the reminder. another thing i will have to do SOON | |
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waleska supply hoarder
Posts : 46 Join date : 2008-11-15
| Subject: Re: Please! Back up your photos. Sat Jan 03, 2009 8:34 pm | |
| oh, no Greta! I'm so sorry this happened... I'm hoping it will come back to live. Have you tried again? how terrible | |
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Denise crafty crafterson
Posts : 420 Join date : 2008-10-30 Location : Minnesota
| Subject: Re: Please! Back up your photos. Sat Jan 03, 2009 10:44 pm | |
| Greta, I feel sick to my stomach. I am so sorry this happened to you. | |
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onehappymamma supply hoarder
Posts : 8 Join date : 2008-12-04 Age : 39 Location : california
| Subject: Re: Please! Back up your photos. Sun Jan 04, 2009 3:46 pm | |
| oh no, how awful. So sorry. | |
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Krazy Ki crafty crafterson
Posts : 326 Join date : 2008-10-07 Location : Sherwood Park, AB, Canada
| Subject: Re: Please! Back up your photos. Sun Jan 04, 2009 3:56 pm | |
| I have an external hard drive (1TB) as well but I have been considering doing some storage at an online site as the next backup! Cause I've had CDs that I can't read now. I haven't done the DVD route but figure it will just be a matter of time before they can't be "read" either?? Anyone do the online route? If so, what company? Any idea on prices? I think Apple has something - maybe that would be a good choice?? | |
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Greta.B supply hoarder
Posts : 110 Join date : 2008-10-30 Age : 44 Location : Michigan
| Subject: Re: Please! Back up your photos. Mon Jan 12, 2009 12:45 pm | |
| - mom2ee wrote:
- oh, i have stomach pains just thinking about this. have you printed your photos anywhere else but home? just thinking they might have backup copies. but thanks for the reminder. another thing i will have to do SOON
Yes, fortunately I do have some of my wedding and honeymoon pics as well as some other random ones at online photo sites. I have some prints and am ordering CDs of the ones I loaded. And, I have the discs of the pictures my friend took at our wedding (we didn't have a professional). But, that's only a fraction of my pictures. Some is better than none, so I'm happy to have the ones I do. | |
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Denise crafty crafterson
Posts : 420 Join date : 2008-10-30 Location : Minnesota
| Subject: Re: Please! Back up your photos. Tue Jan 20, 2009 10:55 am | |
| Any news yet on how the recovery is going? | |
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Greta.B supply hoarder
Posts : 110 Join date : 2008-10-30 Age : 44 Location : Michigan
| Subject: Re: Please! Back up your photos. Wed Jan 21, 2009 2:45 pm | |
| - Denise wrote:
- Any news yet on how the recovery is going?
Jason's uncle said it's dead, so he was trying to find a place near him that his co-workers estimated would be around $100-$150. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. In the meantime, I've been uploading everything to flickr and we bought a new EHD. I'm loving having the online storage for both the backup and because I can look at my pics anywhere I have internet. | |
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aimeeterry supply hoarder
Posts : 171 Join date : 2008-11-29 Age : 49 Location : TX
| Subject: Re: Please! Back up your photos. Sun Jan 25, 2009 3:34 pm | |
| hey greta, i bought a thingy last week to put all my photos on. thanks for the push | |
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Greta.B supply hoarder
Posts : 110 Join date : 2008-10-30 Age : 44 Location : Michigan
| Subject: Re: Please! Back up your photos. Mon Jan 26, 2009 2:34 pm | |
| - aimeeterry wrote:
- hey greta, i bought a thingy last week to put all my photos on. thanks for the push
when you say you bought a "thingy," are you referring to an external hard drive? If so, that is great! But, I still recommend backing up another way (online, DVDs, a second EHD, etc) because mine were on an EHD and now they're gone, probably forever. | |
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aimeeterry supply hoarder
Posts : 171 Join date : 2008-11-29 Age : 49 Location : TX
| Subject: Re: Please! Back up your photos. Mon Jan 26, 2009 5:35 pm | |
| cruzer micro usb 2.0 flash drive? i tried using photobucket, but it took forevvvvver to download them.i only got half of them done. is there an easier faster way? wait maybe i should scroll up and re-read what you already posted so you don't have to re-type! | |
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