Three weeks ago, just before Celine and I went off for a nine-day trip to Utah’s National Parks I decided it was about time I backed up our travelling photo library HDD, one of my main sources of inspiration when writing my travel blogs. My goodness me, can you imagine what I felt as each photo file therein declared itself corrupted and unreadable??!!
First thought . . . use the Apple file mending software – useless. Then take the drive to a couple of local electronics stores; the first one which advertises itself as an Apple Specialist, couldn’t help as they didn’t even have an Apple computer with the latest OS, and the second declared the drive to be so seriously damaged it was in need of the services of a “specialised clean laboratory”.
So my fifteen years or so of digital photography is now in the hands of Kroll OnTrak.com and I am holding my breath as I wait to find out if they are able to recover enough to warrant the four figure cost of their services. A few prayers might be useful too, though somehow my years of agnosticism may mean they’ll go unanswered. Still everything’s worth trying!!