According to the data recovery service, my drive powered up and started spinning. The tech said he could see all the data on it. He remarked, "Wow, you've got a LOT of pictures here!" I repleid, "They are my LIFE!"
Now they have the new casing and power source that my husband tried to install, and will figure why that did not work. Maybe they will - maybe, just maybe, this moment of panic as to potential loss of something so near and dear to me was God's way of teaching me a lesson, as follows:
1. Thou shalt back up thine files weekly.
2. Thous shalt allow Me to give you answers in My time. No loss is ever permanent - have faith.
If I can make My message known through a burning bush,
your hard drive is a piece of cake . . .
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In addition I would also use a service like Carbonite.
Adrienne, I've spoken to other photographers, and they discourage using Carbonite. If you do a lot of shooting, as I do, Carbonite is really, really slow, given the size of RAW and even some JPG files. If you shoot every once in awhile with, say, a 8 megapixel point-and-shoot, you're okay. But, say, 1500 RAW 21 megapixel shots from one day, it's gonna crawl!
Carbonite is slow - but it works in the background and eventually gets the job done.
It is inexpensice ($60/yr) - we use it as a second (offsite/cloud) backup.
I am just so very glad it was okay.
Steph, Michael and I back everythig up to external hard drives. Set your alarm to back up files so you don't forget. In additions to that, we back up to disks. Lots of work, but it's better than losing your work! Rita
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