The saga of the photos

On Thanksgiving day I almost had a huge photo disaster. Long story short, the computer had aquired a nasty something. Virus, Malware infection, whatever. It got it from the boys who like to play "Free Addicting Games" Nothing is free, and these games came with a huge price. The price being the complete demise of my computer. It didn't KILL the computer by wiping out the hard drive or anything, it infected it with so many pop-up's hocking anti virus software that I could NOT get it to log on and it would constantly crash. Ironic. I think what it does, is, infect your computer with a virus then get you to buy their product to stop it. Clever huh? Anyhow, we decided not to be held hostage by these nasty people but instead wipe the hard drive clean and start over. Back in March I did a huge backup of my photos, but before Dave wiped it clean I needed to do another one to get the rest of the summer photos. It wasn't working. Everytime we turned on the computer we had to fight with the anti-virus pop-up's and actually had to start and re-start the computer numerous times. Finally I hear Dave Yelp "get here NOW it's working" I manage to do some backing up and Dave do his vudo and the computer is a blank slate again virus and all.

Leap ahead 2 days. Time to upload the photos onto clean slate of my computer. I do. Only about 1/2 the photos show up. I guess the virus or whatever, kept us from backing up everything. I would pull up a file that I knew had say 10 photos in it, but only 1 would be there. Panic sets in. WTF happened? It's like 1am and I panic. Dave is asleep and does not care. Not care that over 6 thousand photos are missing? Half of Jeffrey's life and ALLLLLLLLL of Jasons life, ( first half of Jeff was on film, we switched to digital about the time we got Jason)were GONE! I did a total backup of Picasa before we killed the hard drive so I could not figure out what happened. I go in and get the backup I made earlier in the year and thank you JESUS, (not being rude here I really am thanking Jesus) they all restored. I do NOT know nor care what happened but I got them back.

So now I'm in total photo mode. I am doing a whole photo project. I am printing ALLLLL digital photos and putting them in albums. I will back up every year on it's own not enmass. Last summer I started and almost finished putting the film photos in albums and I'm well on my way to finishing that.

it's the new year Change the batteries in your smoke dectors and BACK UP YOUR PHOTOS!! OH, also, I am going to try to post all the photos on the website as a 3rd backup. but only as I go along not all at once. If anyone cares to view them I will link to it. This is mostly for fun.

jan