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I need my photos back!

Mon Oct 8, 2007, 12:25 AM
I finally got my computer back from the shop. They apparently had to replace the hard drive and reboot the OS. We told them very specifically to save all photos, music files, and documents.

Apparently, they didn't understand what we meant by "save all photos". What they saved were the photos in "My Photos". They did not save any of the photos in my desktop folder which contained all of my photos from the past year and a half of modeling.

I'm somewhere between "trying to stay calm" and "absolutely livid". I had most of them backed up on cd or in my Gmail account but there were many new ones that I had not yet backed up. They were all organized alphabetically by photographer and then again by date.

I will try to organize what I do have and believe me, I will give the Geek Squad a piece of my mind the next time I see them. Long story short, I may be contacting my photographers on here to get copies back of my photos. In the meantime, I will try not to kill anyone.

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  • Reading: "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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  • Drinking: water

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Wow, that's nuts. I hope they at least called to confirm you wanted the drive replaced. If the actual HD was replaced, maybe you can talk them into giving you back the broken one so you can recover the data yourself. >_<

Best of luck either way.

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"kill em all" comes to mind ;) i know i would flip out and possibly cry for days if that happened to me!

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A word, "external drive". Its absolutely improper of them to not follow your instructions, but.. most of these people are not particularly interested in the "real" world, but get rather narrow sighted in their technical illusion they call a living.

I broke down and got an external drive after loosing three drives in a short time, so there is always a duplicate on it of all my files, plus the dvds of course which back up the external drive. But it makes it a lot easier to make a quick copy of a folder or disk of images in a safe place until I get the dvd burnt

in any case, I hope you are able to recover everything,
spirits bless,
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I understand what you feel. I felt the same thing when I broke my hard drive (200GB of photos). Fortunately I repaired the hard disk...

You have to consider this great tragedy as an opportunety to make new great shots...

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Wow, that sucks. I had the same thing happen to me when my old OS stopped working. But my husband is a computer programmer and was
able to finally retrieve data off my old hard drive. It is possible! See if you can get your old hard drive back! Your data is still on it and you can try to get it off yourself. Good luck! :hug:

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I'm sure they've got 'em, they're just keeping them for themselves. :eyes:

I'm sure that makes you feel much better.
I know what it feels like, several years. My current setting has 3 physical hard drives to keep one with the OS and apps, a second one for my 3D software, and the third one just for my artwork. :(

Hope you might recover some of them. :hug:

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Ah that bloody sucks I can understand why they didn't want to search through the entire computer for any picture files though. Good luck on retrieving everything!

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