Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sorry to have pestered everyone. This is called off. Bill is pretty sure that the disk is really, really a dead duck. It would still cost a fortune to have one of these data recovery companies analyze it, only to conclude that it is dead, dead, dead. Like all of us funny smelling stuff users, he is better at scanning and processing today than he was 10 years ago, so rescanning his earliest work was probably in the cards anyway. I know I would have to, even though I have every scan I ever did in multiple copies (kind of a tautology isn't it "multiple copies" ... one copy is not a copy), but I would still need to rescan a lot of it if I decided to do anything with them. The way Blurb has advanced and the quality I've seen coming out of their production has actualized this question for me. Thinking about it. Anyway, let's not lose the opportunity to drag anyone over the coals who is not making backups and migrating them. I was just home to visit my mother in Chicago. Seeing as we are both getting up there in the years --- I'm 58 and she was no teenage mother --- we got to thinking back. Out came the shoe boxes with gems from earlier years, prints and negatives. We need to be able to do the same thing digitally. Daniel On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 4:33 AM, Daniel Ridings <daniel at dlridings.se> wrote: > C'mon you turkeys ... this is my offer: > > http://dlridings.se/blog/2007/05/18/paw-20-copenhagen-central/ > > 30 buck. Big, A3 (larger than 11x14). Every penny goes to retrieving > Bill's data ... as long has he commits himself to a book. > > Daniel > > On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 1:47 AM, Daniel Ridings <daniel at dlridings.se> > wrote: >> Better yet ... how many of us are prepared to sell a print ... we must >> have something ... for 20 - 30 dollars and let the payments go to a >> PayPal account Bill sets up or something like that. >> >> Win win >> >> Daniel >> >> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 1:45 AM, Daniel Ridings <daniel at dlridings.se> >> wrote: >>> How many are prepared to donate, let's say, 20-30 dollars to a fund to >>> get the data back? We can see it as a downpayment on the coming book? >>> >>> I'm game. >>> >>> In the meantime, we can give Bill a really, really hard time. I mean >>> ... no backup? >>> >>> 60 of us at $20 dollars a head ... >>> >>> Daniel >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 1:38 AM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at >>> mac.com> wrote: >>>> Not recommended if you also may wish to send it to a clean room for >>>> professional retrieval. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> George >>>> (from iPad) >>>> >>>> On Jan 10, 2011, at 18:27, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Another suggestion is to put the hard drive in the freezer for an hour >>>>> or >>>>> two. >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>> >> >