Off topic: why have my photos disappeared (but not music or other data)? Thread poster: Lia Fail (X)
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Lia Fail (X) 
Spain
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I save all my data to an external hard drive (Fujitsu Handy Drive 60Gb, about 4 years old now).
Recently I had my PC reformatted.
I noticed that I had lost some data from the external drive (some photos) at around the same point in time, just after, but most were still there.
Now, 4 weeks later, ALL the photos are gone. Nothing else, so far. I s¡till have may data, my music etc.
Is this coincidence? Or is there a reason?
... See more I save all my data to an external hard drive (Fujitsu Handy Drive 60Gb, about 4 years old now).
Recently I had my PC reformatted.
I noticed that I had lost some data from the external drive (some photos) at around the same point in time, just after, but most were still there.
Now, 4 weeks later, ALL the photos are gone. Nothing else, so far. I s¡till have may data, my music etc.
Is this coincidence? Or is there a reason?
[Subject edited by staff or moderator 2008-12-03 09:42 GMT] ▲ Collapse
| | | | shasas
Germany
Local time: 14:50
English to German
| Backup method | Dec 3, 2008 |
Are you using a backup software to transfer your data to the external hard drive? If so, it may be the case that the backup software is set to synchronize the data before backing them up, effectively deleting all files on the external hard drive that are no longer stored on your PC.
| | | | Jan Willem van Dormolen (X)
Netherlands
Local time: 14:50
English to Dutch
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This could be anything, but one possibility would be:
Do you have an automated backup solution in place? This might be poorly configured. Many of these solutions automatically delete files that are in the backup, but no longer in the original location. Since you may have changed the location of your original photos when reformatting, the backup solution will conclude that they are no longer needed in the backup (since it cannot find the originals anymore) and delete them.
But this is... See more This could be anything, but one possibility would be:
Do you have an automated backup solution in place? This might be poorly configured. Many of these solutions automatically delete files that are in the backup, but no longer in the original location. Since you may have changed the location of your original photos when reformatting, the backup solution will conclude that they are no longer needed in the backup (since it cannot find the originals anymore) and delete them.
But this is really anyone's guess. ▲ Collapse
| | | | Lia Fail (X)
Spain
Local time: 14:50
Spanish to English
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TOPIC STARTER | AUTOMATIC BACK-UP | Dec 3, 2008 |
The photos were only on the external drive, not on the PC as well.
The automated backup seems the likley explanation, as I made an attempt to do automated backup but aborted it as it was going to take too long and I decided to postpone it until another day, and maybe that explains why only the photos, but not other data, were lost.
However, you make me very wary of automated backup, becuase I'm not such a whizz on computers that I know how to configure backup, so I thi... See more The photos were only on the external drive, not on the PC as well.
The automated backup seems the likley explanation, as I made an attempt to do automated backup but aborted it as it was going to take too long and I decided to postpone it until another day, and maybe that explains why only the photos, but not other data, were lost.
However, you make me very wary of automated backup, becuase I'm not such a whizz on computers that I know how to configure backup, so I think I'll return to my old system of manual backup, which saved my bacon recently.
Thanks for the clues:-)
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| Possible equivalent of "checking the plug" | Dec 3, 2008 |
After formatting the PC, did you install a photo / image recongition program compatible with the format your photos were in? (i.e., capable of reading them?)
The photos may in fatc be on the external, but PC might lack software to read them, thus showing nothing there, not even unreadable files.
I have found this problem with externals and DVDs not showing files (not even as data files) due to lacking the software capable of reading the particular format (especially with all the for... See more After formatting the PC, did you install a photo / image recongition program compatible with the format your photos were in? (i.e., capable of reading them?)
The photos may in fatc be on the external, but PC might lack software to read them, thus showing nothing there, not even unreadable files.
I have found this problem with externals and DVDs not showing files (not even as data files) due to lacking the software capable of reading the particular format (especially with all the formats I have movies in). ▲ Collapse
| | | | Saturniana
Local time: 15:50
English to Romanian
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| Photo recovery | Dec 3, 2008 |
You might want to try some photo recovery software like Zero Assumption Recovery before concluding your photos are gone for good.
| | | | Heinrich Pesch
Finland
Local time: 15:50
Member (2003)
Finnish to German
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When you start Picasa the first time, it searches the whole system for all kind of images. Make sure your external disc is connected. I found images from 8 years back which I could not even remember anymore. Picasa2 is free of charge.
Regards
Heinrich
| | | | Lia Fail (X)
Spain
Local time: 14:50
Spanish to English
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TOPIC STARTER | Thnaks for tip ... | Dec 7, 2008 |
Heinrich Pesch wrote:
When you start Picasa the first time, it searches the whole system for all kind of images. Make sure your external disc is connected. I found images from 8 years back which I could not even remember anymore. Picasa2 is free of charge.
Regards
Heinrich
...sadly it didn't work:-(
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