Don't Drop Your Laptop!

[Deebs]

Over Thanksgiving, one of the myriad of people using my laptop apparently dropped it (no one let us know, but we know by the damage done that it had to have been dropped). Did I have all of my pictures backed up? Of course not. We sent it out to a lab to recover anything they could, and the hard drive is completely physically damaged. I have some pics posted on our website, so I can recover those, just not to the same quality, and many of DD's pictures were already backed up. The past year that has been a blur with two kids, though? Not a picture backed up at all. Hopefully between the grandparents and professional pics, we can piece something together. This just makes me totally sick. So, my advice for the day - take the time and back up your pictures!!!

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I'm sorry! Thanks for the reminder. I've been meaning to do this...

[HouseofWool]

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This is going on the list of things that I will be doing while on maternity leave... The very long list.

I'm so sorry you lost all of your pictures. It must be heartwrenching.

[migirl]

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Oh no, I'm so sorry!! I hope they're able to recover the pictures.

FYI for anyone else, Google Mozy. You can back up 2GB of your files for free online w/out needing to buy anything. It's a good thing to do if an external HD is on your list and you haven't gotten it yet.

I've been meaning to check out Mozy, thanks for the reminder.

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Oh, that's awful! I'm sorry!

Something similar happened to my laptop last year. You can bet your buttons that I bought an external hard drive the same day I got my new laptop!

[moonlight]

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Thanks for posting this. My external hard drive (all of 1.5 years old) started making this really odd clicking sound. It was bad enough for DH to think it was about to die. Fry's in our area sells external hard drives for so cheap. I had a new one within a couple days.

I'm so sorry you lost those pics!

[PrincessFiona]

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Oh....MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!! I feel your pain! I got an external hard drive a year ago and started saving pics on it and was so happy that I did because the kids downloaded a virus onto my laptop and everything was destroyed. It is such a terrible feeling to lose pictures!

I hope you can get enough from family and friends to make up for what is lost!

I'm so paranoid about pictures that I also have multiple photobucket accounts to store pics on too just in case any of my other devices fail!

Kris