Data Recovery Finalized.....

[ErikJonas]

I at last have all my images back!!!....I installed the data recovery program from LC Tech "File Recovery Pro* and once started i was able to see everything on my drive and recover it...The files were on the desk top making them much easier to find and recover....

Word to anyone who might consider using this program for a crashed drive, it needs a LOT of memory...My gig of memory was almost not enough to run the program. It froze up once even... LC Tech provides outstanding Tech support i called and got right through to a tech specialist no voice prompts to go through, actually talking to the receptionist and then a REAL person...

It was Asher and others who kept me from spending the needless $150.00 diagnostic fee the computer repair / Data Recovery store said it would cost just to LOOK at the drive...And minimum $800 to recover the images which i would not of been able to afford till the end of summer or longer....

All the images are back...I wanted to hug them...I have promised them to back them up right away and provide a better home for them =) ...I feel complete again...Now i need to run it on that Kingston memory card that failed and see how that goes....

 

[Asher Kelman]

Now hug them, in future back up and store a copy elsewhere! I met a guy working at Gesser's photography store in San Francisco, where Mike Spinak shops, and he had copied all his pictures on to a hard drive and he had his negatives there too. There was a fire and the hard drive, the computer and all the original film was lost in one night!

Next, use software that doesn't strip your EXIF data.

Add you © Erik Jonas to the IPTC code from Photoshop or the software you use.

With the data of your camera and your © we know it's your work. If some company uses your pictures, tight now, how could you prove it's yours?

I'm so happy that you put the effort into recovering the precious pictures, just as I predicted and insisted you do. Congrats.

Now I hope you might listen to me on the other securtiy points: back up, keeping the EXID and including your © status like a Pro who owns his hard work!

Asher

 

[Steve Robinson]

Glad to hear your 'life' has been recovered. I copy my images to a hard drive separate from the primary partition drive and then to a backup drive. Still they are all in the same location. I'll have to look into an online storage option. Lesson learned.

 

[ErikJonas]

Steve do you have Costco there?...Costco Whole Sale has a web site,duh...But if your a member..Unlimited on line account to upload your images to...Its for use for ordering but its a way of backing things up...Cheers...

 

[StuartRae]

........in future back up and store a copy elsewhere!

When I worked for the MoD the data security guys used to say that unless data $ exists in three different places, it doesn't exist at all.

Regards,

Stuart

$ For the sake of all the other old pedants here, I should point out that I've finally succumbed to the modern custom of treating the word data as a singular plural.

 

[Doug Kerr]

Hi, Stuart,

$ For the sake of all the other old pedants here, I should point out that I've finally succumbed to the modern custom of treating the word data as a singular plural.

The editorial policy here (when writing in English) is to treat the English word "data" as what is formally called by grammarians a non-counting noun (like "concrete" and "oatmeal"), which is grammatically treated as if singular.

Of course, if I were to write in Latin, I might need to use the Latin word data, which is a plural, meaning (approximately) "those that are given".

Best regards,

Doug

 

[StuartRae]

Thanks Doug.

Here's what the Oxford Dictionary site has to say:

Strictly speaking, data is the plural of datum, and should be used with a plural verb (like facts). However, there has been a growing tendency to use it as an equivalent to the uncountable noun information, followed by a singular verb. This is now regarded as generally acceptable in American use, and in the context of information technology. The traditional usage is still preferable, at least in Britain, but it may soon become a lost cause. Compare with agenda.

Regards,

Stuart

 

[Doug Kerr]

Hi, Stuart,

Thanks Doug.

Here's what the Oxford Dictionary site has to say:

Strictly speaking, data is the plural of datum, and should be used with a plural verb (like facts). However, there has been a growing tendency to use it as an equivalent to the uncountable noun information, followed by a singular verb. This is now regarded as generally acceptable in American use, and in the context of information technology. The traditional usage is still preferable, at least in Britain, but it may soon become a lost cause. Compare with agenda.

Good reference. Thanks.

The problem is that the plural of the English word datum (in its technical uses) is datums. ("Different datums are used for geodesic calculations in different contexts.")

And there is really no singular form of the English word data (meaning information). We do not ever say, for example, "The temperature data is stored in memory, each datum as a 16-bit word."

Isn't language fun!

Best regards,

Doug

 

[StuartRae]

Hi Doug,

....the plural of the English word datum (in its technical uses) is datums

Good point.

Isn't language fun!

It provides me with considerable entertainment as I shout at the TV when fewer and less and 'you and me' and 'you and I' are used incorrectly.

Regards,

Stuart

 

[StuartRae]

Hi Doug,

This link is quite interesting.

Regards,

Stuart