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Messed Up Royally

June 26th, 2016 at 02:37 pm

So... last weekend I reformatted my computer. A few weeks prior to that I had transferred ALL the photos off of DHs SD Memory card. 4 years worth of photos.

Can you see where this is going?

I meticulously went through everything on my computer and uploaded into Amazon Drive and Dropbox. I signed up for the Firefox thing that remembers your favoritesy67/logins/etc. I thought that ALL my photo files had been uploaded.

Then I hit "restore" and went through the process of resetting up everything.

All week a niggling thought has been in the back of my head that I should have double checked that ALL photo files got uploaded *before* doing the restore. But with helping DH get moved in, etc., I didn't have a chance to look to see if they actually had.

This morning I had a chance. Frown Frown I feel absolutely sick. I can't believe I was so careless to not be sure of it beforehand.

I think there is a very slim possibility that someone with computer geek as their middle name may be able to recover them ...$$$$

I'm not sure if I should tell him when he wakes up later today (he works nights), or wait til I have a possible solution in hand.

We've had a lot of really good discussions this weekend, and things have been going pretty well. The dog's owner will hopefully be coming to get him SOON today.

Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. An I'm sorry is a little weak for something like this. Doesn't get the pictures back. Frown

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18 Responses to “Messed Up Royally”

  1. PatientSaver Says:
    June 26th, 2016 at 03:09 pm 1466953773
    1466953773

    Oh, I'm so sorry, Laura. But mistakes happen. You're human. As soon as you can, for your own peace of mind, I would make a few calls to computer geek people and see, after describing the problem, if they think they can get the pix back for you. Have them come to the house to do it and you may not even have to tell hubster. Unless you want to, after it's all been fixed.

  2. FrugalTexan75 Says:
    June 26th, 2016 at 03:19 pm 1466954380
    1466954380

    Thanks PS. I'm not sure who I can call on a Sunday - but am looking into it.

  3. scottish girl Says:
    June 26th, 2016 at 03:45 pm 1466955906
    1466955906

    I don't know if this link helps at all: http://www.easeus.com/resource/retrieve-deleted-photos-from-formatted-hard-drive.htm

    Or this http://www.remosoftware.com/photo-recovery-after-format

  4. FrugalTexan75 Says:
    June 26th, 2016 at 08:03 pm 1466971427
    1466971427

    OH MY WORD!!! (Yes, I am shouting!)

    THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!

    SG - The ease us program worked! I've got the photos back (or I will once the deep scan finishes.) I installed it with great trepidation - worried about installing a virus or something on my computer. (The website is written in bad grammar/bad English.) But it actually has done the job! All without having to spend a penny - just time and effort.

    DH had woken up and I ended up telling him about what I'd done - he was predictably sick about it, but took it pretty well. I was never so happy as to be able to tell him that I was able to fix my mistake!

    Again, THANK YOU!

  5. PatientSaver Says:
    June 26th, 2016 at 08:28 pm 1466972884
    1466972884

    HOORAY!!!!!!!

    So glad the problem is fixed! That's wonderful!

  6. Dido Says:
    June 26th, 2016 at 10:28 pm 1466980111
    1466980111

    Glad the problem got fixed, especially before you had to tell DH!

  7. creditcardfree Says:
    June 26th, 2016 at 11:46 pm 1466984782
    1466984782

    That's awesome that SG was able to help you find a free and relatively fast solution! People make mistakes and that isn't a great one to have to admit, but life would have gone on. Reminds me of a story...my aunt and uncle who back in the day of film, just tossed their film to be developed in a large container. At some point, after years had gone by they tried to go have it developed. Much of it was too old! It had cracked or been exposed to light before they could be developed.

  8. My English Castle Says:
    June 27th, 2016 at 03:45 am 1466999127
    1466999127

    What a great thing! SG rocks!

  9. scottish girl Says:
    June 27th, 2016 at 06:05 am 1467007538
    1467007538

    Awesome!!!

  10. PatientSaver Says:
    June 27th, 2016 at 10:27 am 1467023246
    1467023246

    Yet another way SA has helped its members Smile

  11. debt-free by thir-ty Says:
    June 27th, 2016 at 02:17 pm 1467037060
    1467037060

    That's so great that you were able to recover them!

  12. CB in the City Says:
    June 27th, 2016 at 02:31 pm 1467037910
    1467037910

    Isn't it great we have this forum to help each other? Mind-boggling that someone in Scotland helped someone in Nebraska.

  13. scottish girl Says:
    June 27th, 2016 at 02:41 pm 1467038488
    1467038488

    It is great CB!

  14. Frugaltexan75 Says:
    June 27th, 2016 at 04:10 pm 1467043842
    1467043842

    SA and SG Rock! Smile

  15. starfishy Says:
    June 27th, 2016 at 06:50 pm 1467053408
    1467053408

    fantastic that you were able to recover the photos (were you definitely able to recover them??) with SG's help! Smile Smile

  16. rob62521 Says:
    June 27th, 2016 at 07:28 pm 1467055688
    1467055688

    Super glad you could recover the photos! SG rocks!

  17. FrugalTexan75 Says:
    June 27th, 2016 at 11:30 pm 1467070232
    1467070232

    Starfishy - Yep! Smile

  18. starfishy Says:
    June 28th, 2016 at 01:46 pm 1467121592
    1467121592

    that it such great news FT - yippee!! Smile

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