Rogg4n
Last Panorama of Fall - Derborence - Switzerland
Here is probably the last picture I’ll post of my early ride to Derborence in October. Winter is already there, and it’s probably my last chance of posting it this year … and just for you it comes with a little story (with a moral at the end !):
I was very afraid because I thought I Iose it. This one and all the ones I took (the raws, the working tiffs, the camera Jpegs and so on) Why ? I just accidentally deleted them. Lets be clear : I don’t think I am the noobiest guy on earth when it comes to using a computer. I studied IT for years, and I am kind of counscious of what I do.
However, I had to send some files to someone on a USB stick (for some reasons, I was not possible to use an online sharing service). The only USB stick available I had was a bootable Linux drive. And as you maybe know, the bootable sticks may be a little bit capricious if they are plugged when you turn on your computer. I didnt’ want my friend to have any problem, so I decided not only for format it, but to erase the MBR. I did it on windows with Testdisk. I was on a rush, I was a little bit stressed. I had to choose the drive to format and I had two list of my computer drives : the one given by Testdisk and the one given by Windows disk manager.
The thing is : the testdisk one listed “Disk 0, disk 1, disk 2 ...” and the windows one listed “Disk 1, Disk 2, Disk 3” … You probably imagine what followed : I messed up the lists, choose the wrong number and remove the allocation table of an entire disk in less than a second. I have three hard disk : one for my operating systems, one with some films, series and music, and one with only personal stuff including photos.
Fortunately, it was the one with films and music that was erased : but imagined how I felt when I realized that I could have deleted almost four years of photography work ! The shock was so intense that I reacted quite irrationally : I knew that there was no risk for my remaining disks : but before doing ANYTHING, I fetched an external drive and I did some backups (which took all night actually).
It’s only the day after that I looked for a drive restoration solution, which I found , and I repaired the allocation table in 2 seconds for free (thank you GNU/Linux environments). I found my films and music files as if nothing happened.
So people, this story has a simple conclusion : your photography work has some value for you. You don’t want to loose it : do backups, use cloud solutions, anything, but have a plan ! Thank you for reading !!
Last Panorama of Fall - Derborence - Switzerland
Here is probably the last picture I’ll post of my early ride to Derborence in October. Winter is already there, and it’s probably my last chance of posting it this year … and just for you it comes with a little story (with a moral at the end !):
I was very afraid because I thought I Iose it. This one and all the ones I took (the raws, the working tiffs, the camera Jpegs and so on) Why ? I just accidentally deleted them. Lets be clear : I don’t think I am the noobiest guy on earth when it comes to using a computer. I studied IT for years, and I am kind of counscious of what I do.
However, I had to send some files to someone on a USB stick (for some reasons, I was not possible to use an online sharing service). The only USB stick available I had was a bootable Linux drive. And as you maybe know, the bootable sticks may be a little bit capricious if they are plugged when you turn on your computer. I didnt’ want my friend to have any problem, so I decided not only for format it, but to erase the MBR. I did it on windows with Testdisk. I was on a rush, I was a little bit stressed. I had to choose the drive to format and I had two list of my computer drives : the one given by Testdisk and the one given by Windows disk manager.
The thing is : the testdisk one listed “Disk 0, disk 1, disk 2 ...” and the windows one listed “Disk 1, Disk 2, Disk 3” … You probably imagine what followed : I messed up the lists, choose the wrong number and remove the allocation table of an entire disk in less than a second. I have three hard disk : one for my operating systems, one with some films, series and music, and one with only personal stuff including photos.
Fortunately, it was the one with films and music that was erased : but imagined how I felt when I realized that I could have deleted almost four years of photography work ! The shock was so intense that I reacted quite irrationally : I knew that there was no risk for my remaining disks : but before doing ANYTHING, I fetched an external drive and I did some backups (which took all night actually).
It’s only the day after that I looked for a drive restoration solution, which I found , and I repaired the allocation table in 2 seconds for free (thank you GNU/Linux environments). I found my films and music files as if nothing happened.
So people, this story has a simple conclusion : your photography work has some value for you. You don’t want to loose it : do backups, use cloud solutions, anything, but have a plan ! Thank you for reading !!