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Back up your hard drive!
Well here I am typing away on the lappy. The main PC had a major meltdown taking the 40 gig hard drive with it. On that hard drive were all the pics from my Nikon digital camera since I bought it over the past two years and about the last year's worth of astronomy pics I've taken. I have bakups of most of the comet pics and all the early astro pics (which arn't so good anyway), but the rest, like the coolpix camera pics are GONE!
I never realised how devestated I would be in a non recovery situation. I guess I never valued digital photos the same as prints, until now. Two years of cat, plant, tree, sunset, planet, dish pics are all gone. Some pics I put quite a bit of work into. I was in the process of backing up but never gave it top priority.
Feeling pretty depressed right now and have a huge headache. I think a bad memory stick was responsible but still not sure. I don't like computers anymore and certainly don't trust them.
So make sure you all back up those precious pics you've taken. Not that I trust disc media either. I've had CD's lose data over time.
Anyway I'm off to wallow in self pity and smack myself in the head.
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