Gone....

Can you imagine losing this precious picture?

Can you imagine losing 347 pictures? Can you imagine losing 347 pictures of your daughters wedding?

The last week has be full and very tiring. I never thought that would happen since the wedding is WAY over. Mom called me on Wednesday night sounding very distraught. She was on her way to watch the kids while we headed to a church meeting. "I lost them." Huh? "I lost all of the wedding pictures?" Oh NO!!! How in the world does my mom who never erases her pictures on her camera lose pictures.

(See if you can follow or skip ahead) Somehow she uploaded them to her computer, but then realized that she wanted to take the disc to Wal-mart to get them printed. She thought she copied them, but she must have slipped and selected "move." Then her camera would work right and it asked her to reformat her disk. Unknowing what she had just did - she said yes. Then looking at her camera realized the wedding pictures weren't there and went to her computer to search for them. Gone - can't find.

Then Jason and I come in...I didn't think they were completely gone, but Jason knew that they had to be on the hard drive somewhere until another file would write over them. (Sounded familiar since Bob D accidently erased our harddrive one time and recovered it all!) But the question - how do we search for it? I called upon one of our favorite computer dudes - Shawn Ross. He confirmed our hypothesis and gave us a few options - they just had to do this at Calvary.

Not really wanting to attempt it on our own and not really wanting to drive to STL, we decided to search for a Flash Card Recovery program. We found some and started working on the card. After a good 18 hours of trial and error and lack of sleep, we got the pictures back. We are missing a few, but we are thrilled that most of the big day are here. Now we have 3 copies of them so that nothing can get erased again.

Morale of the story - get your stupid pictures backed up!