I lost seven thousand pictures today. All my cute dogs, cosplayers, steampunk airship crew, and steampunk, and other categories. I get so many I store them on disks with cut and paste. Well, I cut and it said it pasted, but the disk is corrupt and won’t read. It shows zero files… Have to start over with those. Don’t worry, it does not take me long to stock up, and I still have around 10,000 pictures in other categories…
Michael Bradley - Time Traveler 
Of course I don’t really ‘like’ it – I just want to step by and say: This happens to the best of us. I am an IT security consultant and have developed the most paranoid backup strategies ever, storing to multiple locations, encrypted … whatever. Yet, there is still a chance that you, the user, can mess something up … overwriting all your backups etc.
Good luck with rebuilding your geeky repository!
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Oh how I feel your pain! I wish you luck (hopefully, something like you may have a backup somewhere you forgot or something like that) and I’m sending you calming thoughts … 🙂
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My heart skipped a beat when I read this. Losing treasured photos is a gut wrenching experience; possibly because they trace our effort and lived experience in curating them…a sort of micro-legacy. I imagine for many of your readers backing up photos of family and vacations has skyrocketed to the top of the to-do list for the upcoming weekend.
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