I have found that two situations end up costing me money: Boredom and stupidity.
I have done this twice.. Once about a year ago and again this morning. I return from a trip excited about my digital photos. Pop the flash card in the computer. Select all the pictures and do a slide show. Opps, there are a few bad ones that I might as well delete before showing the pictures to my family! Right click on the first bad one and select delete (Windows XP). Guess what? All the images were still selected from the slide show and XP quickly deletes them all without even asking if I am sure!!! Gone. Not trash bin. No nothing. Well after calling myself all kinds of names and kicking myself to the point of tears, I decided to do a Google search for flash memory recovery. Since I considered anything involved punishment for my stupidity, I did not shop around but purchased (on line) the first program that worked (DiskInternals Flash Recovery). The demo version showed the recovered pictures. You had to email them $40 to save the pictures. It works. Serves me right!! It even recovered pictures from many sessions ago (Christmas), which I did not need, but interesting. Anyway, there has got to be a way, or should be a way, to have Windows block stupid actions like the above with flash memory!! Just asking if I was sure I wanted to delete 40 files would have cause me to stop!! Anyone know any settings for flash memory cards that would make file activity (especially deleting) just like hard disk activity?? ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
