Sunday morning I opened my email and I had some sort of terrible horrible WORM virus - I didn't even open an email...the whole system just shut down on me and went black. After about two hours, I finally got one screen to come up - factory Restore. That is the only thing that would work. So, I did it. And, man oh man, did that do terrible horrible things. All my bookmarks are GONE. My passwords that I had saved are GONE. Our ITunes library is GONE. A book that I had sort of been writing off an on over the past couple of years GONE. And, the WORST - all my PHOTOS...GONE. I sobbed over this one. A few people have told me that you can take it to a computer shop and maybe they can retrieve them from the hard drive, so I will do that once things have settled a bit around here (like I am home again). I have learned a lesson - print out your photos, put them on a web hosted site, get an external hard rive or put them on a memory card (I'll probably do all of these now....)
I'll end this with this picture - one that has nothing to do with me or this blog, but hey, it's on the computer. Stupid, stupid, stupid......
If any of you have time and money for a plane ticket - can you come over and bake some cookies, make Christmas dinner, buy stocking stuffers and wrap the presents. Great! Thanks!
Hope everything goes well with your Dad. All is not lost as far as your computer is concerned. A computer expert should be able to retrieve your files for you. Merry Christmas!
ReplyDeletehere's hoping Santa brings you some flash or thumb drives....really easy to download pics and doc's to one (like less than a minute or two) and they don't take up much room at all! hopefully you can retrive your precious items!
ReplyDeleteOh Shara it's so hard sometimes when it feels like nothing is going right! I must say it's wonderful to hear you Dad is doing so well. If I could I'd come and help you, but I can't even get all my stuff done!!! I need to back up my photos...I agree that would just kill me to loose all of them! Sigh...something else to do. Good luck with getting them off your hard drive. hugs, Linda
ReplyDeleteSo pleased for you that your dear Dad has done so well through surgery, a weight off your mind I'm certain. Sending continued best wishes for a quick recovery.
ReplyDeleteI lost about 400 photos off a memory card that decided not to work so I know just how you feel
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Feeling your pain, if that helps ... your computer problem may scare me into action.
ReplyDelete2012 will be better,2012 will be better,2012 will be better....keep repeating that mantra!
ReplyDeleteI keep telling myself to back up our computer...now I think I may do it so I don't end up with a sad kudu or some African antelope looking forlorn. Chin up..the year is almost over.
ReplyDeleteAm glad your Dad is doing well.
ReplyDeleteAm not glad your computer did not do so well. Hopefully you can recover what you lost - I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you!
Shara, I can sympathise with you. This week my washing machine died and my kitchen drain clogged. If you don't laugh you'd seriously freak out. But all things will pass. I'll send "good karma" your way. Merry Christmas!
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