Y'all. Our laptop suffered a devastating crash about a week and a half ago. It is only two years old, we have never EVER had anything near this kind of problem with our Macs, and it was really, really bad. Not my-kid-spilled-milk-on-my-computer bad, because that, apparently, is way easier to fix than our problem. Nope, this is the sorry-there-are-big-problems-with-your-hard-drive-and-even-the-recovery-software-you-paid-over-$100-for-tells-you-that-this-is-really-bad kind of bad.
I just went through the files that the recovery software was able to save, and you guys, it is all the junk. I have about 50 pictures out of the thousands I have taken over the last year. And beyond that, do you know what was saved? One audiobook and the pictures that were in the trash. UGH. All the pictures of my babies since last Christmas are gone. All the pictures from our 10th anniversary trip are gone.
By the look of things, this particular crash is more severe than the normal hard disk crash. The people at Apple say they will replace the computer, but data recovery is up to us. And beyond what we've already done, we'd really be looking at $1000 or more to recover the missing photos, if they are even recoverable at all.
So at this point, the only place that the best of my pictures exist is on Facebook. And those are small enough files that they are not truly printable, because they'll never look good blown up to just about any size.
What I'm trying to work through at the moment is whether or not it is worth it to try to recover these missing pictures. Because I do still have the ones on Facebook, it is not a total loss. But it does mean that I will never be able to print them successfully. Is this a big deal? I can't decide. Up until Clara was born and the busyness of three kids prevented me from posting all the time, this blog was the place I stored all my pictures, I never printed a thing, and it didn't bother me in the least. And I have still not printed much.
But, y'all, seriously, last week I was going to have stuff printed to fill a bunch of frames! The timing on this crash stinks.
So the lesson of the day is this: BACK UP YOUR FILES.
{Face palm.}
