The Bishop's: May 2008

So many know that I am a professional photographer. Whenever I take professional pictures I download them, then immediately burn and archive the original files. Then after I edit I burn and archive the edited files. I am very careful with digital negatives. However when it comes to my own family pictures in the past I have been pretty good at backing up my images and stuff...EXCEPT for this time. The other day I came in and found my little Emery clicking around like crazy on my computer. I did not think much of it until later that night I took a look at my family hard drive (I have 2 one for PRO stuff and one for family) and noticed that instead of only having 15 gigs left I had a whopping 40 gigs left. I got to thinking "what the heck" so I started to look around at our files. This was about at 10:00 at night, by 10:30 I was in tears all of my family pictures, my address book, my email data, and a bunch of other stuff (25 gigs worth) had been deleted somehow by my little stinker. We have now put a lock on the computer room door so little fingers can not go crazy. Well to make a very long story short somewhat short, I was in tears as I went through each one of my backup discs and realized that ALL of my family pictures from my point and shoot camera had been deleted with no way to retrieve them. I WAS AN IDIOT AND NEVER BURNED A BACKUP CD OF THE FILES. These included 2 years worth of Christmas's, Emery's first bday & 2nd bdays, Blakely's baptism, our vacation to Sea World, Haden's first day of kindergarten and just lots of memories. I could not sleep by the time I went through all of the discs (with no luck) it was 1:00 in the morning. I sat at my desk and bowed my head and said a little prayer. I know it is cheesy to ask a very busy Heavenly Father who has to help people with real problems out, but I asked anyways for some way to help me recover these pictures. I just kept thinking about all of those fun times I'd never get to remember except for in my mind. Right before I was about to turn the computer off, I decided to do a little search on google. I typed in "Recovering deleted files from the trash on a MAC." From that search I was able to find a trial version of this software called file salvage that I ran on the computer all night. When I woke up I had 15,000 JPEG files that I could retrieve from the hard drive. Of course I had to buy the full version of the software but I did for $79 and was able to retrieve the images. I felt like I had been given a little miracle, here are some of the images I got back: