Comments on: Oh, Sad Day!

By: jkossowan

jkossowan — Thu, 17 May 2012 06:40:41 +0000

In reply to Carrie. Good thought, Carrie. It hadn't even crossed my mind. Sadly, I already formatted the card, erasing all of the images for sure, but that would have been worth a shot. I had gotten a brand new camera card and turns out, I didn't know I had to format it to my camera before using it (I blame this on having a techy husband that spoils me by doing these things for me!) Oh well, lesson learned.

By: jkossowan

jkossowan — Thu, 17 May 2012 06:38:35 +0000

In reply to coffeepoweredmom. Oh, thank goodness he was able to retrieve them. I can't imagine losing everything! I am so grateful that I download my photos everyday (I had actually downloaded a batch that morning) and only lost an afternoon worth of photos.

By: Carrie

Carrie — Wed, 16 May 2012 14:23:42 +0000

Before you toss out the camera card check to see if a computer repair place or a photo place can recover the photos… they might have a trick we don’t know about.

By: coffeepoweredmom

coffeepoweredmom — Wed, 16 May 2012 12:57:34 +0000

I only liked this because I agree with it wholeheartedly. I’d be so sad to lose any of my pictures, at one point my computer crashed and I almost lost all of my photos. Luckily my handy Phil went into it through…DOS…or script…or something, and managed to transfer all of my photos off of it before she ceased to power on – eternally. I now keep a back-up of all my photos on a USB stick, which, once full, will be kept in the safe.
I haven’t had a camera card become unreadable yet, but I can imagine it would make me cry. I’m sorry this happened to you, that sucks. A lot.