Dearly beloved,
We are gathered here today to mourn the passing of Willow’s iPhoto library. Last night Willow innocently opened her iPhoto account to show David and Emily pictures of her three year old twin future-roomates, only to find that her photos had disappeared. Despite attempts by Willow and guests to find the missing pictures, they remained elusive. Further investigation today by UrbanHonking techno-dudes has proved fruitless. We have no choice but to assume the worst. The photos are gone forever.
What precious memories have been lost? Well, all of the precious memories captured from February to the present. This includes the LA trip wherin Jake gifted the camera to Willow, who dutifully documented every detail of the vacation. Also birthday shots, neighborhood shots, brunch party photos, and Anacortes jams, to name just a few popular favorites. We shall all deeply mourn the passing of Willow’s iPhoto library for generations to come.
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Okay, so I parodied the situation a little, but honestly, I am really sad. I would have sacrificed any other program on my computer- iChat, iTunes, iMovie- if only I could keep but half of my iPhotos. Sigh. I will make a couple more CPR moves to see if I can bring those babies home, but I’m afraid it’s a lost cause. Why did this happen? What is the meaning?
Today I hiked all day long in Forest Park. It was wonderful. I am taking a Field Science class this week, and we basically did seven potential elementary school field trips in one day today. We went to the Audobon Society, Pittock Mansion, the Arboridum, etc., etc. It was the most exercise I’ve gotten since school started. By the end I felt sweaty and great. All of us did. Two of my colleagues and I went for gelado afterwards, and it was divine. I had a scoop of blueberry gelado, and a scoop of key lime sorbet. So so so refreshing.
One thing I forgot to mention about rollerskating: When we first arrived at the rink on Sunday, an old lady in a sparkly Skate Dancing ensemble had just wiped out. I mean, she ate shit. She hit her face on the floor, I think. There was a crowd of senior skate-dancers circled around her, trying to assess the damage. One old man was sort of yelling at her. I don’t really understand why. Anyway, you could tell she was a real seasoned Skate Dancer, and she felt really embarrassed. I saw her wipe away tears. But later she was back on the rink in civilian clothes, and I admired her committment. What a gal.
Sorry my spelling was so awful tonight. I am a tiny bit drunk, thanks to Steve and his CD assembly line party. Fun times!
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if there is any hope of recovering your library (which, of course, is really weird to just disappear like that), i would *highly* recommend not really using your computer any more … until, well, you have given up.
to attempt to not get too geeky, basically every time *anything* writes to your hard drive (for example you browse the web or read your email), its all the more likely that a file will get plopped down on top of where your photos once were, and kinda still are.
when stuff is “deleted”, really the place they are on the hard drive is just marked “hey, you can put stuff here, mr. (or mz.) computer!”. then, eventually (read: soon), the computer will. in theory, if you run special software soon enough, it can find this un-attached filestuff.
in theory. and i dont know any recommended osx recovery software, but all/any of it would be hoping to save the day before too much other stuff got written on the disk.
if it all kinda disappeared all at once, like the directory (folder) got killed. this may make it even easier to resurrect, cuz if you can bring that folder back to life, most recovery software will then attempt to recover what was once in it. i think. blah blah blah… email me if whatever.
in other news, megan and solveig were in forest park today too. tinstacian magic!
p.s. some day we should talk about backup strategies. e.g. ‘rsync’ comes installed on osx and is really good for this.
I REALLY hope that the above prestidigitation works. I’m so sorry that this happened to you.
Have a safe trip.
thats so bad about your photo’s. hope u find them
i totally fear this happening to me w/ my photos or music etc…
now i have been trying to be good and back up.
my friend Adam has no sympathy for files lost by people who do not back up. i guess that means that if one backs up and still looses files he would then feel sympathy.
i am sorry for your loss.
Condolences on the lost photos, sweetpea.
mmm, gelato…
I don’t know what I would do if I lost my iPhotos- my heart goes out!
(Now I’m paranoid about losing my own! Aaahhh! If you are able to retrieve them, you must post your solution).
Bon Chance!
I too just lost my entire iPhoto Library. 2,000 photos taken all over the world. G5 iMac iPhoto 6.02, OX 10.4.5 What a total bummer.
Dean
San Diego, CA USA