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lost drive
I'm not getting the data back from my hard drive. I had a couple of people look at it and tell me it was a hardware problem, so it would have to be reassembled to get the data off. The Geeks Squad tech indicated that it could be around $1200, give or take a couple hundred. I had convinced myself that it would be worth spending $1000. I figured that three hours of work per week for ten months at a going rate of ten dollars an hour would be well over $1000, so it would be worth it in the time it would take to replace my work. Then add the stuff I couldn't replace. But the final estimate from the Geek Squad was more like $1600 to $1800. That's over my limit.
I keep remembering things I've lost. The pictures from our trip to the Chicago Botanical Gardens with Mike and Lynda, which I never fixed up (I'm surprised those are gone, sine that was relatively recent). 75% of the pics from the airshow. Pics from the family reunion. Those were ones which I never fixed up. Everything between Thanksgiving and midsummer is gone too, but I had fixed up most of good ones and uploaded them to the internets, so I've got those. But to get them back on my computer, I have to download them back, and then probably have to rename them all, and many of their properties are gone. I can rescan the Polaroids and found negatives, but that was a lot of work. And I spent a lot of time making templates from the Polaroids.
I just realized I lost the files for the photos that I had printed for the show I was in. I still have the originals, but not the work I put into getting them ready for the show. Oh well. I probably won't print them again.
I've lost a whole lot of work in my Scotch info. Every tasting I do, I spent two or three hours writing tasting and distillery notes. Now I have to start over. The lists of what the groups have tasted already. I got lucky that I had recently sent my own tasting list to my phone! That would have been a huge loss. My dad has a lot of info that he can send back to me.
Music. I ripped a lot of CD's last year. Now I'll have to do those over again. And a few songs that I had bought online. I wonder what they were. One thing I did this past year was go through my music collection, song by song, and weed out the ones I didn't care for all that much. And then I went through the ones I kept and corrected all the file info. That was a lot of work!
I lost all my e-mails. Okay, I'm not really missing those. It's kindof a scrapbook, so I wanted to keep the stuff, but there's nothing I'm really missing. It's inconvenient to lose all my contacts, though. My internet favorites are gone too, but that's not a big deal.
People struggle with loss all the time - real loss - so I can't be too upset about this. The only thing is that I could have it all back for "only" a couple thousand dollars.
I keep remembering things I've lost. The pictures from our trip to the Chicago Botanical Gardens with Mike and Lynda, which I never fixed up (I'm surprised those are gone, sine that was relatively recent). 75% of the pics from the airshow. Pics from the family reunion. Those were ones which I never fixed up. Everything between Thanksgiving and midsummer is gone too, but I had fixed up most of good ones and uploaded them to the internets, so I've got those. But to get them back on my computer, I have to download them back, and then probably have to rename them all, and many of their properties are gone. I can rescan the Polaroids and found negatives, but that was a lot of work. And I spent a lot of time making templates from the Polaroids.
I just realized I lost the files for the photos that I had printed for the show I was in. I still have the originals, but not the work I put into getting them ready for the show. Oh well. I probably won't print them again.
I've lost a whole lot of work in my Scotch info. Every tasting I do, I spent two or three hours writing tasting and distillery notes. Now I have to start over. The lists of what the groups have tasted already. I got lucky that I had recently sent my own tasting list to my phone! That would have been a huge loss. My dad has a lot of info that he can send back to me.
Music. I ripped a lot of CD's last year. Now I'll have to do those over again. And a few songs that I had bought online. I wonder what they were. One thing I did this past year was go through my music collection, song by song, and weed out the ones I didn't care for all that much. And then I went through the ones I kept and corrected all the file info. That was a lot of work!
I lost all my e-mails. Okay, I'm not really missing those. It's kindof a scrapbook, so I wanted to keep the stuff, but there's nothing I'm really missing. It's inconvenient to lose all my contacts, though. My internet favorites are gone too, but that's not a big deal.
People struggle with loss all the time - real loss - so I can't be too upset about this. The only thing is that I could have it all back for "only" a couple thousand dollars.