Re: I'm going to cry now... I STOPPED CRYING :_)

2011-01-25 Thread Rob Studdert
On 26 January 2011 04:45, John Sessoms wrote: > I'm open to suggestions, but I really can't afford anything at this time > that's not free-ware. I gave up on freeware options a while back, too many compromises, I have been using Allway Sync http://allwaysync.com/index.html for quite a few years

synchronizing disks (was: I'm going to cry now... I STOPPED CRYING :_))

2011-01-25 Thread steve harley
On 2011-01-25 10:45 , John Sessoms wrote: Then I'll be ready to start wiping the duplicate USB drives and making real backups on them. I guess what I'm going to need now is a good program for synchronizing the data on different drives. I'm open to suggestions, but I really can't afford anything

Re: I'm going to cry now... I STOPPED CRYING :_)

2011-01-25 Thread Ken Waller
I eight backups So how did they taste? Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: "Cotty" Subject: Re: I'm going to cry now... I STOPPED CRYING :_) On 24/1/11, Larry Colen, discombobulated, unleashed: No, it

Re: I'm going to cry now... I STOPPED CRYING :_)

2011-01-25 Thread John Sessoms
I think I've now got all of my digital photos consolidated on the N.A.S. Had the transfers from my plethora of USB drives running all day long yesterday. I mean REALLY all day LONG! I gave up and went to bed about 2:30am and some of them were still copying files over at that time. They were do

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2011-01-25 Thread John Sessoms
From: steve harley On 2011-01-24 16:55 , John Sessoms wrote: > The internet sales tax is about 1/2% more than > the sales tax on local purchases. oh, you have to pay that? how does NC know? They don't. That's why it's so screwy. It's included on the state's personal income tax return form

Re: I'm going to cry now... I STOPPED CRYING :_)

2011-01-25 Thread P. J. Alling
On 1/25/2011 5:42 AM, Larry Colen wrote: On Jan 25, 2011, at 2:34 AM, Cotty wrote: On 24/1/11, Larry Colen, discombobulated, unleashed: No, it's time to make sure she has two backups. And new primary drive. Let's not hold back here. I eight backups, one located on each continent AND one in

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2011-01-25 Thread Boris Liberman
Unfathomable are ways of tao of backup... /grin/ On 1/25/2011 12:07 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: On 11-01-24 4:49 PM, Doug Franklin wrote: On 2011-01-24 12:33, Boris Liberman wrote: Apparently it promotes some kind of product but I don't care about it, and neither should you. I used to work for EM

Re: I'm going to cry now... I STOPPED CRYING :_)

2011-01-25 Thread Larry Colen
On Jan 25, 2011, at 2:34 AM, Cotty wrote: > On 24/1/11, Larry Colen, discombobulated, unleashed: > >> No, it's time to make sure she has two backups. And new primary drive. > > Let's not hold back here. I eight backups, one located on each continent > AND one in orbit. Yes I know I could do b

Re: I'm going to cry now... I STOPPED CRYING :_)

2011-01-25 Thread Cotty
On 24/1/11, Larry Colen, discombobulated, unleashed: >No, it's time to make sure she has two backups. And new primary drive. Let's not hold back here. I eight backups, one located on each continent AND one in orbit. Yes I know I could do better -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) |

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2011-01-24 Thread Charles Robinson
On Jan 24, 2011, at 19:52, steve harley wrote: > On 2011-01-24 16:55 , John Sessoms wrote: >> From: steve harley >>> On 2011-01-24 10:35 , John Sessoms wrote: > Following my own advice, I bought a NAS box and two 1.5TB drives > yesterday when I went home to Raleigh. I configured it as RA

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2011-01-24 Thread steve harley
On 2011-01-24 16:55 , John Sessoms wrote: From: steve harley On 2011-01-24 10:35 , John Sessoms wrote: > Following my own advice, I bought a NAS box and two 1.5TB drives > yesterday when I went home to Raleigh. I configured it as RAID1 > (mirrored) this morning. > > The 1.5TB drives (Seagate Ba

Re: I'm going to cry now... I STOPPED CRYING :_)

2011-01-24 Thread Paul Stenquist
On Jan 24, 2011, at 6:41 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > > On Jan 22, 2011, at 9:53 PM, steve harley wrote: > >> On 2011-01-22 22:50 , Ann Sanfedele wrote: >>> >>> Geez .. with all that I UNPLUGGED the harddrive from the wall >>> socket... let it cool off... >>> replugged... and >>> >>> I got it

Re: I'm going to cry now... I STOPPED CRYING :_) UPDATE

2011-01-24 Thread John Sessoms
From: steve harley On 2011-01-24 10:35 , John Sessoms wrote: > Following my own advice, I bought a NAS box and two 1.5TB drives > yesterday when I went home to Raleigh. I configured it as RAID1 > (mirrored) this morning. > > The 1.5TB drives (Seagate Barracuda) were $80 each; 2TB drives would >

Re: I'm going to cry now... I STOPPED CRYING :_)

2011-01-24 Thread Larry Colen
On Jan 22, 2011, at 9:53 PM, steve harley wrote: > On 2011-01-22 22:50 , Ann Sanfedele wrote: >> >> Geez .. with all that I UNPLUGGED the harddrive from the wall >> socket... let it cool off... >> replugged... and >> >> I got it all back > > congrats; now it's time to make sure you hav

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2011-01-24 Thread Ann Sanfedele
I got a 1TB seagate with insurance past the warranty date from Staples for $69 including tax... -about to open the box. I'll have some tech help on recovery either tonight or tomorrow night - I realize more than just the recent ist D stuff is missing from that external drive or hiding somew

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2011-01-24 Thread Bruce Walker
On 11-01-24 4:49 PM, Doug Franklin wrote: On 2011-01-24 12:33, Boris Liberman wrote: Apparently it promotes some kind of product but I don't care about it, and neither should you. I used to work for EMC on one of their remote backup solutions, so it was a bit of professionally related to me. So

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2011-01-24 Thread Doug Franklin
On 2011-01-24 12:33, Boris Liberman wrote: Apparently it promotes some kind of product but I don't care about it, and neither should you. I used to work for EMC on one of their remote backup solutions, so it was a bit of professionally related to me. So disregarding the promo, it seems to make a

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2011-01-24 Thread steve harley
On 2011-01-24 10:35 , John Sessoms wrote: Following my own advice, I bought a NAS box and two 1.5TB drives yesterday when I went home to Raleigh. I configured it as RAID1 (mirrored) this morning. The 1.5TB drives (Seagate Barracuda) were $80 each; 2TB drives would have been $180 each. since a

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2011-01-24 Thread John Sessoms
Following my own advice, I bought a NAS box and two 1.5TB drives yesterday when I went home to Raleigh. I configured it as RAID1 (mirrored) this morning. The 1.5TB drives (Seagate Barracuda) were $80 each; 2TB drives would have been $180 each. I needed more storage space for this computer. T

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2011-01-24 Thread Boris Liberman
Apparently it promotes some kind of product but I don't care about it, and neither should you. I used to work for EMC on one of their remote backup solutions, so it was a bit of professionally related to me. So disregarding the promo, it seems to make a reasonably funny reading. I sincerely hope t

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2011-01-24 Thread Ann Sanfedele
that was both hillarious and painful! ann Boris Liberman wrote: On 1/24/2011 3:40 AM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: I have to tell you guys that I used to be the queen of backup when I was working spec writing - and in the first few years of working on photos and nothing else, but I've gotten sloppy

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2011-01-24 Thread Boris Liberman
On 1/24/2011 3:40 AM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: I have to tell you guys that I used to be the queen of backup when I was working spec writing - and in the first few years of working on photos and nothing else, but I've gotten sloppy in my dotage... takes a wake up call.. Well, I hope this will bring

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2011-01-23 Thread Steven Desjardins
Great, You are again the Queen of Backup. Assuming that's a good thing ;-) On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: > I have to tell you guys that I used to be the queen of backup when I was > working spec writing -  and in the first few years of > working on photos and nothing els

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2011-01-23 Thread Paul Stenquist
Excellent! Congratulations. Paul On Jan 23, 2011, at 8:40 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: > I have to tell you guys that I used to be the queen of backup when I was > working spec writing - and in the first few years of > working on photos and nothing else, but I've gotten sloppy in my dotage... > tak

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2011-01-23 Thread Ann Sanfedele
I have to tell you guys that I used to be the queen of backup when I was working spec writing - and in the first few years of working on photos and nothing else, but I've gotten sloppy in my dotage... takes a wake up call.. Except that I have almost nothing that I shot in January with the ist

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2011-01-23 Thread P. J. Alling
For some reason, PC inspector doesn't seem to like my Sandisk SDHC cards. I've recovered data from the standard capacity and from the CF cards I use with the *ist-D. It might be a problem with the reader, so who knows. On 1/23/2011 4:53 PM, Rob Studdert wrote: On 24 January 2011 05:08, Ann

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2011-01-23 Thread Rob Studdert
On 24 January 2011 05:08, Ann Sanfedele wrote: > I got back most of the stuff already, but nothing that I took in January... > good thing I got the photo submitted to the > book and the gallery and up on smugmug.   I had accidentally reformatted the > 2 gig cf card in the Pentax  - Yes I knew I w

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2011-01-23 Thread Ann Sanfedele
Cotty wrote: On 23/1/11, Ann Sanfedele, discombobulated, unleashed: the basement where the boiler is... Needless to say. I was wired everyone was glad I called 911 and I must say they really did arrive quickly but one of them crowbarred the door to the basement - and another said

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2011-01-23 Thread Cotty
On 23/1/11, Ann Sanfedele, discombobulated, unleashed: > the basement where the boiler is... >Needless to say. I was wired everyone was glad I called 911 and I >must say they really did arrive quickly but one of >them crowbarred the door to the basement - and another said no I > didn't do

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2011-01-23 Thread Ann Sanfedele
Update: I put the drive in the freezer - I turned off the computer... (for a while) I'm waiting for the drive to come back to room temo I do have an 80 gig WD which I was backing up what I considered the most precious things on - MY C drive is only 80 gigs and is pretty full... And my upsta

Re: I'm going to cry now... I STOPPED CRYING :_)

2011-01-23 Thread John Sessoms
From: Ann Sanfedele Geez .. with all that I UNPLUGGED the harddrive from the wall socket... let it cool off... replugged... and I got it all back yayayayaya! It was the only thing I hadn't tried -- all I did before was check that the connection was tight sigh thanks for all the hug

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2011-01-23 Thread Steven Desjardins
ing fan replaced about a year ago when an "equipment > failure" shut me down. Big relief!! > > Jack > > --- On Sun, 1/23/11, Cotty wrote: > >> From: Cotty >> Subject: Re: I'm going to cry now... I STOPPED CRYING :_) >> To: "pentax list&qu

Re: I'm going to cry now... I STOPPED CRYING :_)

2011-01-23 Thread Jack Davis
Had to have one cooling fan replaced about a year ago when an "equipment failure" shut me down. Big relief!! Jack --- On Sun, 1/23/11, Cotty wrote: > From: Cotty > Subject: Re: I'm going to cry now... I STOPPED CRYING :_) > To: "pentax list" > Date: Su

Re: I'm going to cry now... I STOPPED CRYING :_)

2011-01-23 Thread Jack Davis
cement. Now, go dump the used Kleenex. ;) Jack --- On Sat, 1/22/11, Ann Sanfedele wrote: > From: Ann Sanfedele > Subject: Re: I'm going to cry now... I STOPPED CRYING :_) > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" > Date: Saturday, January 22, 2011, 11:38 PM > yessir I will

Re: I'm going to cry now... I STOPPED CRYING :_)

2011-01-23 Thread Paul Stenquist
Now, right now. Get another drive and back up that data! Paul On Jan 23, 2011, at 12:50 AM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: > > Geez .. with all that I UNPLUGGED the harddrive from the wall socket... > let it cool off... > replugged... and > > I got it all back > > yayayayaya! > > It was the

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2011-01-23 Thread David J Brooks
quot; > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" > Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 11:50 PM > Subject: Re: I'm going to cry now... I STOPPED CRYING :_) > > >> >> Geez ..  with all that  I UNPLUGGED the harddrive from the wall >> socket... let it cool off.

Re: I'm going to cry now... I STOPPED CRYING :_)

2011-01-23 Thread Cotty
Ann, It would appear that the design of the hard drive enclosure is poor, not allowing enough air circulating inside - this leads to overheating, and when metal components get hot, they expand. With small and critical tolerances, this leads to early failure. If you want to continue using the driv

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2011-01-22 Thread Ann Sanfedele
yessir I will something amiss with the Pentax browser too :( a Boris Liberman wrote: On 1/23/2011 7:50 AM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: Geez .. with all that I UNPLUGGED the harddrive from the wall socket... let it cool off... replugged... and I got it all back yayayayaya! It was the onl

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2011-01-22 Thread Boris Liberman
On 1/23/2011 7:50 AM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: Geez .. with all that I UNPLUGGED the harddrive from the wall socket... let it cool off... replugged... and I got it all back yayayayaya! It was the only thing I hadn't tried -- all I did before was check that the connection was tight sigh t

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2011-01-22 Thread Stan Halpin
To echo and expand on Steve's comment: If a drive is that flakey, I would not put anything valuable on it that wasn't backed up in at least one other place. Burn some CDs, buy a new drive, borrow some space on a friend's drive, whatever. Just don't assume that you have solved the problem with th

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2011-01-22 Thread Ann Sanfedele
ow go get another external hard drive for back up!!! Big cheers, Christine - Original Message - From: "Ann Sanfedele" To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 11:50 PM Subject: Re: I'm going to cry now... I STOPPED CRYING :_)

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2011-01-22 Thread Rob Studdert
On 23 January 2011 16:50, Ann Sanfedele wrote: > > Geez ..  with all that  I UNPLUGGED the harddrive from the wall > socket... let it cool off... > replugged... and > > I got it all back > > yayayayaya! > > It was the only thing I hadn't tried -- all I did before was check that the > conne

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2011-01-22 Thread Christine Aguila
Excellent! I'm so happy for you, Ann. Now go get another external hard drive for back up!!! Big cheers, Christine - Original Message - From: "Ann Sanfedele" To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 11:50 PM Subject: Re: I'm

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2011-01-22 Thread steve harley
On 2011-01-22 22:50 , Ann Sanfedele wrote: Geez .. with all that I UNPLUGGED the harddrive from the wall socket... let it cool off... replugged... and I got it all back congrats; now it's time to make sure you have a backup -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.n

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2011-01-22 Thread Ann Sanfedele
Geez .. with all that I UNPLUGGED the harddrive from the wall socket... let it cool off... replugged... and I got it all back yayayayaya! It was the only thing I hadn't tried -- all I did before was check that the connection was tight sigh thanks for all the hugs andd stuff ann