Thursday, January 24. 2008

Saint FreeUndelete

This little baby saved my tush today. For some reason, every single photo I copied today to a shared network folder vanished into thin air. It didn't help matters when I chose the Safe Delete option - to delete the pics as soon as they were transferred. Note to self: Do not safe delete before you verify that the files were indeed safely copied over.

When I discovered that the pics were missing, the hunt for a free undelete program began. The food photo shoot project took a lot of effort and coordination and it was near impossible to re-enact the whole thing again. Thanks to my best online friend Google, I came across FreeUndelete. Made the program scan my empty SD card and the rest, they say is history. Every single pic was retrieved in its entirety. Hallelujah!!!

For more reviews of this really cool (and free!) proggie, head here.

And now, I'm gonna head back home for some much-needed me time. Toodle-doo!
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*I know how it feels. Picasa deleted my entire album of Zachy's pics. BUT, thanks be to God, I bought a really cool submarine (external back up hard disk) and backed it up using ACRONIS. Also, the rest is history. Everything was found again!
#1 Steffi on 2008-01-25 12:11 (Reply)
*jesus saves afterall :-)
#2 eric on 2008-01-26 17:25 (Reply)
*maybe when your pics are lost it might be something good. too many pics, a whole library of pics might be excess baggage.

i had to throw away tons of photos/mementos when moving through chapters in my life.

"...the rest is history..." is actually good!
#3 Anonymous on 2008-01-29 14:51 (Reply)
*Yep. we were made to let go.
#4 kwipex10 on 2008-01-29 14:55 (Reply)
*Steffi - I hereby knight thee champion of Saint Acronis!

Eric - Yep, He does :-)

Anon - I agree with the pain of having an excess of pics hogging precious hard disk space. But when one's taking photos commercially, it's a nightmare to lose even one pic immediately after the shoot - you never know if the client's going to need it in that particular project.

Kwipex - Not easy to let go but yeah, I just learned that everything has an expiry date, even relationships.
#5 coolcat (Homepage) on 2008-01-31 08:48 (Reply)
*expiry date on relationships? my goodness, that's poignant. everything in this world is so temporal. even spouses cease in heaven.
#6 kwipex10 on 2008-02-01 06:19 (Reply)
*Yalor, even the best marriages has death as the expiry date.
#6.1 coolcat (Homepage) on 2008-02-03 17:53 (Reply)

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