Pompano
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Rest easy....
You all have a holiday from Pompano posting any more pictures.....I somehow managed to erase all 1500 photos I had on my computer. So now what..?
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Cincodemayo
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Well that would be the big bummer...sure they're not still on your hard drive? You've got awesome pictures.
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Get EVEN.
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Ken Bondy
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I can't live like this. No backup?
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Tucker
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I'm certainly no expert, but I believe that windows xp has a restore feature......check it out!
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So what are we supposed to do now? 
As far as your computer goes , don't do anything drastic till you understand what you may or may not have left. Don't know if its true but someone
once told me that if you wanted to really erase everthing on a computer you'd have to burn it down to nothing but ashes. Good luck.!
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Bruce R Leech
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don't panic you can probably git them back. first try to do a restore to yesterday. if that dosent work there are otherthaings to try. you dont have
any backup at all?
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Bruce R Leech
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is it only the photos ? or is there other things missing?
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Sharksbaja
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Before u give up
it is possible to retrieve lost data including photos depending on how and which program they were in. If they were just on the hard drive they should
be in the recycle bin.
Many programs that crash, including windows have redundant save points. An expert should be able to retrieve your data but you should immediately
install a new formatted hard drive and not monkey too much with the problem or else you may never retrieve it.
DON\'T SQUINT! Give yer eyes a break!
Try holding down [control] key and toggle the [+ and -] keys
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Let's hope it is something simple like I did. Did you check the recycle bin? That is where I found mine and I do not have the slightest idea how
they got there. One other time I managed to drag them in to another folder and didn't find the missing file until I did a search. Good luck.
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My experiance with the "restore" feature is that it restores the operating sys and program stuff but doesn't effect files (such as pictures, letters,
spreadsheets, etc) I'll hope with you that it restores this other stuff.
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Natalie Ann
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Pompano - This happened earlier this year to my husband - we lost several thousand images which has not yet been transferred to DVD
(because the darn DVD software crashed:no . He tried the restore functions to no
avail.
He did locate, however, a firm that for a reasonable price will do a pretty good job of helping you recover them. I don't know the name of the
company, but will ask him tomorrow after work. If you images are still lost after 4 p.m. Thursday, send me a u2u reminder and I'll ask Steve and get
right back to you. We recovered more than 3/4 of our images - although none came back in the original order. We still haven't sorted out all of
them. However we did immediately transfer all to CDs for storage and then (when software decided to work) we made second back-ups to DVD.
Be sure to let me know Thursday if you still need help.
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Sharksbaja
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two words
back-up or is that one?
DON\'T SQUINT! Give yer eyes a break!
Try holding down [control] key and toggle the [+ and -] keys
Viva Mulege!
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Pompano
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Thanks for all the good advice....
I am not close to being even computer-aware, let alone a good enough user to attempt restoring these photos in any depth, although I will try all
your good suggestions. Thankfully, I do know a nice fellow in Mulege who will probably get everything back in order today sometime. He is Hugo, our
local Mulege computer whiz. Hugo is truly remarkable and has helped me out in the past few months when I have caused some major crashes. (I am a
regular customer now.) He is going to be a little ticked at me, though, because he recently told me to make some back-up discs...but I went fishing
instead.
I don't know what I did this time...and that is the problem, you see...not knowing! Time for some computer classes, Hugo.
To all, THANKS again for your help. I will let you know what happens and how it was done...just in case anyone else has this problem.
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Bruce R Leech
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good luck Pompano. scream if you need anything.
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bajalou
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Back up
External hard drives are getting cheaper and cheaper. I got a 135G last year for about $150. Of course internal ones for towers are even cheaper.
You can copy all your stuff to the other drive and if you have a problem, when you get your computer back in operation, just copy it back. I don't
do it as often as I probably should, but it's a really easy way to save your stuff. You can even hook a external up to a different computer if you
want. Easier than making 20-30 CDs.
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Natalie Ann
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajalou
External hard drives are getting cheaper and cheaper. I got a 135G last year for about $150. Of course internal ones for towers are even cheaper.
You can copy all your stuff to the other drive and if you have a problem, when you get your computer back in operation, just copy it back. I don't
do it as often as I probably should, but it's a really easy way to save your stuff. You can even hook a external up to a different computer if you
want. Easier than making 20-30 CDs.
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Ya know, we have a large external hard drive and also a back-up hard drive and also a second computer.... all to be certain we don't loose images
before they're transferred to DVD. But as you said, we"don't do it as often as probably should". That's the key.... procrastination is not such a
great idea when it comes to backing up data.
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Pompano
Unless you had a disk crash, in which case you would have lost a lot more than your photos, it really takes a lot of effort to delete all of your
files. You have to delete them and go to your recycle bin and remove them from there again, each time confirming your request.
They're more than likely still on your disk. You probably renamed the folder they were in by accident. Use the search feature and look for a specific
file through all of your hard drives.
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bajalou
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My most common thing for loosing files is to acidently drag a file into another file. Then it's "Where'd it go??????" The Search feature helps a lot
in these situations.
No Bad Days
\"Never argue with an idiot. People watching may not be able to tell the difference\"
\"The trouble with doing nothing is - how do I know when I\'m done?\"
Nomad Baja Interactive map
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Bruce R Leech
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajalou
My most common thing for loosing files is to acidently drag a file into another file. Then it's "Where'd it go??????" The Search feature helps a lot
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you are correct. this should be the first thing to try when a file disappears. I have found many this way. also when you do a save as instead of save
a file can be zapped in to another file.
Bruce R Leech
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