[Leica] Casualty of the Digital Age

[richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard)]

Unfortunately, that's a fact :-( It is an external drive. Most of the 
photos are scanned slides so I still have the original. Some of them are 
the files from the Epson R-D1 so if I can't rescue the data, there they go...

Yes, I was planning to make backups....

At 02:00 PM 5/24/2005, Jim Nichols wrote:

>Richard,
>I can't tell from your photo whether your premise was a fact or a 
>prediction.  About a year ago, I bought an external hard drive, with its 
>own "brick" power supply, to use for a backup drive as well as a place to 
>store my digital images.  Many of my images are also on CD, so I really 
>have a backup for the backup.
>
>When a rogue program seriously corrupted my C-drive, and I had to reformat 
>it and reinstall my operating system and software, the photo files were 
>untouched.  As inexpensive as external drives have become, I don't see how 
>I can afford "not" to use one.

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