Help, my pictures disappeared! ;_;

[Del Murder]

Did you get a firewire external drive?

Hahaha. My laptop is so ghetto it doesn't even have firewire connection.

poor miriel Do you still have the originals of your pictures? ;o

The photos were from a wedding weeks ago, and I did a new wedding since then, so the memory cards were erased. Sad thing is that last night, I was getting ready to burn the images onto a CD for backup (which is what I do for every wedding). I had the blank CD in the tray and I even had freakin' Nero open. But then... but then I didn't burn them. And now, look.

[Dr Unne]

Another good option in the future is to upload your pictures to a web server. Most server admins make regular backups to tape or other media. So you have the backup on the server itself, and potentially tons of free backups created by a professional without any effort on your part.

If you email a file to yourself via a Yahoo or Gmail account, it's very unlikely you'll ever lose it due to hardware failure. Yahoo and Gmail have huge buildings full of hard drives and when one goes bad they just shove another on the rack, and they have mechanisms built in to prevent any files from being lost when such a thing happens.

Yeah, the Ubuntu partitioning tool is not all that great. I usually partition beforehand using Partition Magic since it has the ability to create ext3 fs.

Can't go wrong with fdisk. (Then again, I guess you can go wrong with it. Easily.)

[qq=Del Murder?]The photos were from a wedding weeks ago, and I did a new wedding since then, so the memory cards were erased. Sad thing is that last night, I was getting ready to burn the images onto a CD for backup (which is what I do for every wedding). I had the blank CD in the tray and I even had freakin' Nero open. But then... but then I didn't burn them. And now, look. [/qq]

Do you still have Nero open? If so, it's possible Nero cached your pictures in preparation for burning them to CD, depending how far you got. If you have Nero open, don't close it, and have a look around.

It's also possible Photoshop or some other program left cached temp copies of your files somewhere. It depends how sloppy the program is. You may want to look in your various Temp folders. "c:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Local Settings\Temp" for example. Look at anything that has any possibility of being a photo file.

Did you run the command I suggested above?

[crono_logical]

Dragging and dropping is the cut command.

Only if you're moving from one place to another on the same drive, otherwise it's copy - unless you hold Shift at the same time to force moving.

[Miriel]

Yeah.... I was only able to recover like 1/10th of the pictures. I hate the world and stuff.

[bipper]

You can look around for a disaster recovery place. They charge and assload, but you could flush the drive in the toilet, throw it in Mt. St. Helens, use the thing as a turn table as you have vanilla ice freestyling in your living room, and hurl insults at the drive for hours and make it feel like it will never ammount anything, and they could still recover a ton of the data off the thing. I wanna say it is like 110 bucks a gigabyte, going rate.

edit: Here is a link to look at.

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.c...1254612&page=1

Sorry, kinda reaching for loose ends but what other chance ya got

Bipper