Sunday, May 10, 2009

Lost photographs recovered ...

I wrote a panicked depressed post about losing an external hard-drive earlier, then deleted it ...

The good news is, 10.30pm and it's found again.
Gert came home and voila, the photographs were recovered from a sulky hard-drive. Highly technical issue ... turn it off, turn it on again and there they are.

Tonight I didn't photograph the Flemish prime minister but I did get to photograph a Belgian MP and various other delicious folk at a wine and cheese evening and then ended the evening in intense conversation with a lovely Croatian woman who I will photograph one day soon in her 16th century medieval crossbow costume.

There's a group of them, and there was a conversation about some kind of traditional pipe-smoking groups. More to follow one day ... after Naples I guess.

I cleaned my desk today, I put all my 'to-do' lists together on one list and almost died of panic however I am getting there finally.

I fly Tuesday morning, tomorrow promises two options ... things will either flow seamlessly and I will achieve all or it will be a nightmare of late everywhere and things left undone.

Fingers crossed.
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5 comments:

  1. Gary's third pottery blogMonday, 11 May, 2009

    SEAMLESSLY, OK, fingers crossed.

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  2. CatherineMonday, 11 May, 2009

    So glad you got your photos back. On the other hand, I have discovered to my cost that when hard drives start sulking, it is a warning to be ignored at your peril. It is often a sign of impending total failure (I don't want to rain on your parade, but I'd hate for your wonderful photos to be totally lost in a month or so)

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  3. Di MackeyMonday, 11 May, 2009

    Thanks Gary, much appreciated.

    I think the worst of it was that we have a good system in place but I had (foolishly, and not quite realising the system Gert had set up) loaded my Flanders Fields photographs onto the second external hard drive that backs up the first external hard-drive that backs up the laptop. The problem was that thousands of Istanbul photos had overloaded my laptop and the Flanders Fields photographs were only on the second back-up ...

    It should have been foolproof but it could be said that I'm a wee bit special sometimes :)

    I realised the problem when I went to organise sending you and another kiwi friend your relatives Flanders Fields photographs. Will try and get back onto that tonight.
    xo

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  4. furiousBallMonday, 11 May, 2009

    whew, glad to hear you got the photos back

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  5. Di MackeyMonday, 11 May, 2009

    Aye, it was a relief, Van. Sometimes being a computer gumbie needlessly complicates my life ... ;)

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