Counting my blessings
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2015 7:58 pm
Counting my blessings today. A partition on one of my main working disks (with two partitions) started to play up. It started to show up when LR5 was taking an age to increase a thumbnail to a larger size or refused to transfer a file into CS5. My first thought was that there had been a glitch within LR but then the PC froze when trying to save a file in CS5. On rebooting the computer I received the dreaded message that a disk (one of the partitions) needed reformatting before it could be used. Rebooted again and this time no warning message appeared. I decided not to take a chance and bought a new HDD and copied everything over to the new disk.
On sorting out my LR catalogue I discovered that 6 folders of images had not been copied across. Luckily or so I thought I had a backup system in place, well actually two, but when I tried to recover the files from the backups I found that for some reason neither backup had backed up these 6 folders.
At one time when uploading images from my Camera to my PC I would also put a copy of the files on to a CD/DVD. To my relief I found that I had copied four of the missing folders to a DVD and was able to recover the original files. I have lost the files that I had edited but at least with the originals I can recreate them if need be. As for the two folders that I have lost completely they contained few files and in the scheme of things loss of the files is not a critical issue. Things could have been so much worse.
On sorting out my LR catalogue I discovered that 6 folders of images had not been copied across. Luckily or so I thought I had a backup system in place, well actually two, but when I tried to recover the files from the backups I found that for some reason neither backup had backed up these 6 folders.
At one time when uploading images from my Camera to my PC I would also put a copy of the files on to a CD/DVD. To my relief I found that I had copied four of the missing folders to a DVD and was able to recover the original files. I have lost the files that I had edited but at least with the originals I can recreate them if need be. As for the two folders that I have lost completely they contained few files and in the scheme of things loss of the files is not a critical issue. Things could have been so much worse.
