So one of the reasons I’m behind on my blogging is the fact that my laptop crashed. It was an easy fix. It just needed a new hard drive. The bad thing is that nothing could be recovered from the old drive.
Yep documents and pictures were all gone. I broke down and cried. I had said for over a month that I needed to back the pictures up. I just put it off or shoved the thought to the back of my brain until, like everyone else that has ever had this happen, it was too late.
I went on the picture search. Luckily Rick had most of our pictures saved on his laptop and we had a few external hard drives and SD cards with pictures on them. In the end we have everything up to Brady being born. We have bits and pieces after that. I have a few pictures from Brady’s baby blessing and a few of the kids playing sometime last spring.
Unfortunately I wasn’t the only one hit. Rick’s brother and his wife had the same thing happen with in days of us.
I do have to say I’m very grateful that I do a blog and post excess pictures. I am also glad that I turn my blog into a book every year. I may not have the highest quality picture but at least I didn’t loose everything. Sadly this will make next years blog book a little lower quality.
For the future I now don’t delete anything from my SD card until it is saved in at least 2 places and plan to do DVD copies of pictures once a quarter. Hopefully this will save heartache in the future.
Moral of the story: PLEASE BACK UP YOUR PICTURES TODAY. RIGHT NOW!!!
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