I had a lot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving - not just the wonderful harvest from my garden (we had homegrown onions and potatoes as part of the feast), or our family . . . but the retrieval of almost all the data from my hooped USB drive!!
And most of that was thanks to my Dad for pointing me in the right direction. He sent me a demo program from datadoctor.org, which recovered all my stuff - I could see it right there in the computer, but unfortunately, I had to buy the program in order to complete the retrieval process. However, I think that considering all I nearly lost $50 was a small price to pay.
So, 3 hours later, I had rescued all but 3 files. My writing resume, my character file and my latest WIP are buggered. Well, actually, the resume is totally gone, vanished into thin air, and my other two files (all three are Word Documents) have been converted into unintelligible gobble-dee-gook. However, I have hard copies of both this docs, so I'm good.
I was so unbelievably relieved to get all that stuff back . . . and spent the weekend scrapping some of the photos, just to get them into a "safe" place!
Luckily, the latest WIP (Dead of Winter) was only 70 pages long when the USB drive underwent its little glitch, so it won't take that long to copy it all back in. And onto a CD. I now have two copies of everything - one in the computer, and one on a CD. Hopefully, that means this won't happen again.
The moral of this story? Don't keep all your eggs in one basket!! Cliche, I know, but obviously there's a reason that one was coined in the first place.
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