Have I lost all my pics? Flippin' Olympus!

[American Dream]

Well, a new blank card worked fine today so its not the camera.

Laurie, I posted the duff one today...............thank you! :thumb:

Great news about the Camera.

Lets hope the Data's ok and recoverable.:thumb:

 

[camcondor]

Linda, do yourself a favour and buy an external harddrive which just plugs into a USB2 or pref Firewire port, so you can clear your cards and download all your images onto a harddrive dedicated to storing your photos after a phototaking session. You can buy drives ready to plug in with around 300GB storage space for about £70 via ebay or other online shops - its a good way to go.

:thumb::thumb::thumb:

Will do my best with the card - I know the pics mean a lot, and update you and everyone else interested by the weekend........


Laurie

 

[Lindy-C]

Thanks Laurie!

I'd better speak nicely to Santa!!

 

[Brisey]

Hi Linda

There is a 500 gb external hard drive on offer at Aldi this weekend @ £69.99
Thinking of getting one myself

 

[Lindy-C]

Wish I could get near an Aldi Brisey........best I can do is Budgens

 

[Papa Smurf]

Linda, Isn't there an Aldi in Ciren?

Answer No. DOH! Swindon, Cheltenham & Gloucester

 

[Brisey]

Hi Linda

You have a PM, I hope

 

[Lindy-C]

Hi Linda

You have a PM, I hope

Got it Brisey - Thanks :thumb:

Cheltenham is closest, 26 miles (52 round trip)....funny I thought there was one in Banbury.....a mere 20 miles

Anybody want any rabbits.....got plenty of them right on the doorstep!

 

[Papa Smurf]

Linda, there probably is, but ........ Banbury? (*shudders)

Try store locator on Aldi's site

 

[American Dream]

Got it Brisey - Thanks :thumb:

Cheltenham is closest, 26 miles (52 round trip)....funny I thought there was one in Banbury.....a mere 20 miles

Anybody want any rabbits.....got plenty of them right on the doorstep!

Yes Please?

Pack em in a box and DHL them.

The kids would love them.

Do they bite? Bet they're Homing Rabbits eh?

 

[The Poor Relations]

know what you mean Linda, our closest is 18 miles, and we have lots of squirrels

 

[American Dream]

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[Lindy-C]

Do they bite? Bet they're Homing Rabbits eh?

Doubt they'd bite, might whiff a bit with 48 hr delivery tho'

Knowing my luck they'd bring their mates back too :Angry:


PS....Know what you mean about Banbury.....I seldom go there alone

 

[Lindy-C]

know what you mean Linda, our closest is 18 miles, and we have lots of squirrels

Will swap you!

 

[American Dream]

Doubt they'd bite, might whiff a bit with 48 hr delivery tho'

Knowing my luck they'd bring their mates back too :Angry:


PS....Know what you mean about Banbury.....I seldom go there alone

To Banbury Cross, There rides A lady upon a white horse.


I know Banbury.

Used to have a customer there.

PS Lincolnshire rabbits DO bite.

 

[Geoff]

Hi Linda

What about Aldi Evesham only 16mls.

Geoff.

 

[Lindy-C]

And to put the thread back on topic....................I hope the rabbits don't get my parcel before Laurie does! :Blush:

 

[Lindy-C]

Hi Linda

What about Aldi Evesham only 16mls.

Geoff.

Didn't know there was one in Evesham.............anyway, I think its sorted
Thanks Geoff! :thumb:

 

[American Dream]

Send us a pic of them on your new card eh?

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[tofo]

try downloading picasa that will search you computer for all photos .
when thats loaded put your xd card in xd slot on computer
(i believe you said you had one some printers do also)
if it finds them click download using picasa
then leave it running for a minute or two
then look in picasa
:thumb: ooh dont forget to name them hope it works for you it did for me

 

[Lindy-C]

Thanks Tofo

 

[camcondor]

NO YOU HAVEN'T (LOST YOUR PICS)

PM awaits you Linda......


Laurie

 

[American Dream]

Good news I hope Laurie.:thumb:

 

[Lindy-C]

Thanks Laurie..........you are a gem! :thumb:

 

[The Poor Relations]

Fantastic news!!!!!!!!!

Wish I had known laurie 2 years ago and could have got my sons second birthday prints back

 

[camcondor]

There are a number of software packages that are around for this kind of data recovery - a few years ago when digital photography was in its infancy, I used a now-defunct IBM Microdrive - it was am amazing IGB in size at a time when Compact Flash cards could not go beyond 512MB.....went on a special holiday, used newly acquired (and now way out-dated) Canon EOS D60. Filled Microdrive. Arrived home - and......Microdrive failed.

Cost to recover precious pics = £250 (!) from a professional data recovery company - commercial recovery software for mere consumers wasn't around then.

So when I saw what looked like a decent package, cross-platform as well, I bought it and hoped we would never need it. But its been a great investment - well its recovered lots of pics for friends!! We have touch wood not had further failures as we stopped using Microdrives, which were mini-harddrives and subject to sudden death......and only buy pricey top end CF cards now (Sandisk Extreme IV )- the cheap ebay clones I stay away from!!

Recovery Software I used is DON'T PANIC 2 - by Image Recall. Lots of packages available now though, just take care to get one that doesn't just recover accidently deleted files; it needs to be a true smaller version of full commercial recovery software which can "see" beyond read/write errors and card hardware problems to recover your pics.

Poor Relations: sorry about loss of pics, is card now destroyed / history??

Laurie:thumb:

 

[Lindy-C]

7 emails received so far

Laurie I cannot thank you enough.... edit.........now total of 13 emails received :thumb:

 

[Geo]

Linda
DONT OPEN the last e-mail
It contains the invoice
Geo
Well done Laurie, I hate to see women cry