The other day, I was trying to format an external hard drive for my girlfriend. However, instead of deleting the partition on her drive, I deleted it on my drive – the drive I keep all my photography (RAW files and edits) on!!! This couldn’t of hurt the soul more. I was on the verge of tears, but the hope was that one layer of zeros wouldn’t prevent a software recovery.
The first recovery program yielded results – it found the files but could not save them for some reason. The second recovery program saved everything in record time! So I immediately backed up my work to an external and re-inserted the photos back into the original drive.
The moral of the story is that it is easy to get lazy with backing up your data, photos, videos, etc…but never forget how crucial it is. We trust computers too much, and sometimes we trust ourselves too much, but anything can happen. I’m pretty good with computers and I made a fairly simple mistake. So learn from me, if you don’t back up at least your most important stuff daily, try ever week, maybe on a Sunday. On my Mac I use time machine, which is incredibly easy. On my desktop pc, I just drag and drop all my new files over to the external hdd. It is easy, and it provides at least some assurance, and that can mean the world to you when it comes down to your passions being flushed out of existence!
