Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted: I"m truly sorry for your loss. Only those who labor over viewfinders, proof sheets, light tables and printers (digital or wet, it don't matter) can begin to feel your pain. Here's hoping things coalesce somehow and your Body of Work is resurrected better than before. Best Wishes, Bob On Mar 20, 2007, at 15:41, Ted Grant wrote: Howdy folks, I know some of you have experienced the total utter anguish of loss when a hard drive crashes and burns taking everyone with it! My main PHOTO hard-drive crashed in big flames taking about three months of careful prepared material, photo editing, writing, scanning each photo and all the other aspects of producing a new photography book on the life and times of the old guy. One can only say.... "What the hell that'll teach you not to back-up every single moment!" The truth? Well I did some of it. Please note...."some of it." :-( The only reason I'm telling you? I have to tell someone or slash my wrists or cut my throat and at the moment I thought telling someone was the better of the options! :-) Besides I can't do it right now because we begin heavy duty production on the BRAVO TV documentary tomorrow on my wild wild life as a photojournalist. And I didn't want to disappoint you in seeing and hearing the tales of my wild and sordid life. ;-) By now I'm sort of over the gut wrenching crying anguish of yesterday. It also seems the only way to correct the computer situation completely is dump the whole thing and go new, right now this is a sort of hatched together machine. Another thing I need not face at the moment, re-loading everything! I of course being a photographer and not a techie will not be involved in doing any of this make over. I leave for as far away as possible as I do not want to see any of this resurrection! When everything is ready to rock and roll in it's complete simplicity of operation... slightly above "moron operator" state I shall sit before it and start again. Mean while I'll begin the search for slides & negs for re-scanning, along with prints to flatbed scan. Sorry if this put you off your feed, but thank you for being there as crew to listen. As you've helped make me feel better and now I'll put the straight razor away! ;-) Best part? Nobody died... I was close!:-( But all, well most of it, will rise again complete with an incredible lesson learned! BACK-UP EVERY MOMENT! No haranguing please, I've had all I can take at the moment! As she who must be obeyed has beat all of you to it and better. :-) Oh geeeeesh the woman hasn't helped one iota!:-) But what the hell I still love her. :-) ted _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information