John Coyle wrote: > Even those who know the risks can get caught out: I spoke to > Ryan today, and he has lost all but 20 of the pictures he's > taken since March due to two hard drive failures! > I'm even more glad I use both Cd's and HD's for storage...
Yes, it must be a horror when it happens, particularly when you are clued up on this need. But adding to what Bruce said which was: >About 1 month ago a friend of mine told me that his digital camera was stolen. He had 6 months worth of pictures on it >that he had never bothered to download or print yet. It contained two summer vacations, birthdays, his son's baseball >season (including pitching first year), etc. He said that he just had not got around to doing anything about >preservation and now it is all lost. >Much like computers and backups, most of us don't back up like we should until we get burned once or twice. Yes, a >significant portion of the digital photos being taken now will probably be lost forever. You just have to feel for this guy. Most folk buy such cameras for precisely these reasons and to so many people the camera is just a tool and not a hobby in it's own right. Other things take priority, and backing up becomes a 'get round too' job. Until something like this happens, which means these images are gone for good. Ugh! I don't know if the importance of backing up is mentioned to customers of P&S cameras at time of sale (and if it is, there will be some who nod when they really don't understand a word), it could well be in the instructions but we all know how well they are read! I have seen offers of free books or a free users class with some cameras in the past, but I suspect that few of them read the books or attended the classes, because they had many others things to do. Which only leaves one way to learn. Malcolm
