Thursday, June 17, 2010

A tale of woe and warning

Once upon a time there was a boy and girl who got married and had a really cute baby boy.  They loved him so much.  He was so cute that his mom took pictures of him all day long. Pictures laying on the ground kicking, sleeping pictures, making silly faces, smiling, giggling, pictures of how he grew and changed every day, and esspecially pictures with those who love him who live (and are going to live) far away...etc. etc. One day her computer froze.  The next day she was told that her hard drive crashed.  She was in denial that this meant anything that bad.  Until he told her all the data on the computer is lost and that it would be about $1500-$3000 to recover it.  (...something about a "circuit" crash, rather than a regular crash) This is when she started to cry- a lot.  LOST.  All the pictures of their baby.  LOST.  All the pictures of their last couple years of marriage. LOST. 

Moral of the story.  BACK UP YOUR PICTURES!!! I am talking to YOU!  It WILL happen to you so do it.  NOW! 

9 comments:

Aaron and Elizabeth Jensen said...

We lost all of our picture from the last year of our marriage up until James was born. The only ones we had were from blogging. Thank goodness for those or we wouldn't have any at all. We now back up everything, everytime we load new pictures

Kristen said...

At least you have a few from your blog. *note to self: put every single picture on my blog so that I won't be sad if my computer crashes!! I'm sorry that everything is gone. That's a huge bummer. Now you just get to take MORE!!!

Missy said...

I'm sorry you lost everything! That happened to me and I lost EVERY wedding picture except those that I had already printed. I recommend an external (but it can get corrupted too) AND an online back up (I use Smugmug and LOVE them - they back it up in 3 separate states so if there were any natural disaster in one, they've got 2 back ups).

Jodi said...

that makes me want to cry, and i'm not even his mother.

Taryn said...

Oh no, Leah!!!! I am so sad for you. Our comp just crashed, but thankfully we saved her pictures like the day before and then in the end it wasn't as bad as they thought, but still it was a lesson well learned! I wish I could do something to help you :(

jenifer said...

soo sad. i'm sorry for you.

Dara said...

Oh no Leah. That makes me so sad. I'm SOOOOO sorry. Same thing happened to my boss and they lost 5 years of pictures w/ their kiddos.

kami said...

oh noooo!!!! that is so sad. i just went and backed up my pictures!

Ihler Family said...

I thought a lot about this after we talked at the farewell. I use blurb to make my books (www.blurb.com). They have a feature where you can upload your blog and print it as a book. The pictures are small because your upload size is usually small but you could upload your blog and at least have a copy of those pics.
Lv
Nicole