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A personal story of (little) misery
Published on November 3, 2005 By lifehappens In Home & Family
I am so so frustrated. I can't decide whether to scream or cry. (just to note, I did cry when I realized what happened) I know it isn't a big deal to some people and I'm probably overreacting, but I guess it's just the final straw for me. Or maybe I'm hormonal....hate to admit it, but it's true.

I took some wonderful pictures of my son playing in a rubbermaid container as a pool in our backyard at the end of September. I thought I downloaded the photos, but I wans't really worried about it, after all, I have a 2.2 gig card in my camera....I'm not really worried aobut running out of room.

But I must have done something when I was editing photos, instead of saving it to my hard drive, I clicked save and it rewrote the file on the card. Not a problem? wrong! I lost access to ALL the pictures I had (over a thousand!!) I was upset, but I was pretty sure all the improtant ones had been saved. i lost a bunch of pictures of my husband and kids playing...which really made me mad, but I can take those again.

Untill this morning. I realized that the only picture that I have of my son in his "pool" is a photo that I resized for the internet and therefore, is too small to print out well. And that's it. Not only did I lose a cool moment, I lost a lot of pictures that I was really proud of. Normally I take okay pictures, but that day I was on fire. I had dozens that turned out amazing...and this is all I have to show for it. I lost it all. I wonder what other special memories I will go looking for and never find again....



Comments
on Nov 03, 2005
Yikes...that is a bummer.

It is a good shot though!
on Nov 03, 2005
((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((HUGS))))))))))))))))))))

sooo sorry

I KNOW you can't replace them........with a natural talent you will have more great ones though!

Does anyone in the family have copies by any chance of what you took??

on Nov 03, 2005
That really stinks. I don't think you are over reacting at all. Pictures are captured memories you can never get back; that is why people are so sentimental with them. Sounds like you have a hobby of this, so make the most out of the situation and let this be am excuse to go crazy with taking new pictures! Your son looks like he is happy to have them taken! At least you know for next time how to save them.
on Nov 03, 2005
That is a darn shame, it really is. That's a cute picture, as I am sure they all were.
We have a 128 meg media card in our camera. The way we avoid that is by emptying the media card onto a CD-R or taking the thing to Sam's Club and get prints. (My wife scrapbooks, and you can't tape a media card into a scrapbook and be able to see actual pictures...) That way we can empty out the card and make room for lots more pictures.
We download our media card a little more often than we think is prudent, but we've never had data loss or overwrite.
on Nov 03, 2005
Wow. That really sucks. If it were me, I'd be crying and freaking out. Gah.

Pictures are so precious. You might be able to get close to duplicating them, but you can never replace them. It's like saving a little piece in time...and you can't go back and get it.

I'm sorry that happened to you.
on Nov 03, 2005
I lost three years worth of pictures just before my husband went to basic (all of our pictures from college), but it wasn't because of camera problems. I had about ten rolls worth of film that had not been developed yet, zipped up in a big ziploc bag. I went looking for them after we moved to my aunt's place and asked him if he'd seen them. He said yes, he had, and that film didn't last that long, I wouldn't have been able to have them developed, so he threw them away. A couple of weeks before then, so they were long gone. I'm still not happy with him whenever I think of it. I hope you are able to salvage something. Best of luck!
on Nov 03, 2005
Thanks for not thinking I'm lame for bemoaning the loss of pictures. If you know me, you know i'll take a couple thousand more by the end of the year to try and catch up.

Singrdave-good advice. I will start downloading a little more frequently now. My old camera (Sony CD Mavica) burned right to disk, so I'm still not used to having to download them so frequently.

LadyCleve, I've missed you. Thanks for the sympathy. Just as an FYI, you can always develop film. I am currently working my way through a box of film I found in my in-laws house.....some picture are 30 years old. Anyway, most don't come out at all and the ones that do....well, they will need a LOT of digital fixing, but HW suddenly remembers the memories when he sees them, so tell your DH to leave film alone!

Thanks for making me feel a little better, when HW comes home tomorrow, I will whine to him.
on Nov 09, 2005
Yeah that's a bummer, but you seem to be coping optimistically as is your style. Now remember the time I told you that my husband accidentally deleted my ENTIRE HARD DRIVE!!! (We've never been able to recover it.) Our son's first 9 months of life in pictures & movies...POOF!...gone, as well as the rest of my records.

So you needn't think anything can get much worse than that, other than the entire world going up in smoke all at once. Then...eeh, who needs pictures anyway? We can capture every moment of life in our hearts and minds, the way it should be.