grrr

[jennickels]

I'm going through my pictures and just realized I have none of them from last Halloween on this computer.  So I checked my external hard drive and they aren't on there either.  Which means they are only saved to my other computer.  Which has no graphics card in it so I can't turn it on and find them.

I guess I never transferred them to the external so now I don't have them on this computer.  I was missing Easter 2011 pictures, too.  I thought I just didn't take any (Easter isn't that big of a deal in our house) but now they might just be on the other computer that I can't get into.  Ugh.

I was sure I had EVERYTHING backed up.  A couple years ago I had to do a complete system wipe and thought I backed everything up only to find out I missed the folder with Owen's kindergarten graduation pictures in it.  So now all I have of that day are 4 edited photos I uploaded to a website (and they aren't high-res in the least).  I lost all the pictures of him with his friends (kids he'll never see again).

Now this.  All I have on this computer from last Halloween are the photos I edited and saved to put online so they are small files, low-res.

Comments

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

Sucks to lose family photos, but at least they exist on a drive, even if it's not accessible at the moment.

All the drives from my old Macs now live in cases. (Most IDE/SATA/USB cases fall into the $20-$40 price range.) I should also back up the data to DVDs & my monster drive, instead of the gajillion CDs lurking around. :P

[jennickels.livejournal.com]

I stopped saving to CD/DVD when I got the external because I had so many CDs/DVDs because I take hundreds of pictures at a time. I still have the CDs around but I haven't updated them since 2009, I think.

I'm always terrified I'm going to lose pictures (like the graduation ones). Most of the really important ones I now upload to my flickr account, too. It takes forever to upload the full-res ones.

[jennickels.livejournal.com]

Just looked and 55 of the photos are backed up on my flickr. I'm not sure if that's all of them but it's got to be most of them that I took on Halloween so I can always download them.