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Subject: [Leica] OT: My gallery recovery
From: kanner at acm.org (Herbert Kanner)
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 21:21:28 -0700
References: <8A13E0C1-E36A-434C-881F-8A02F08B1F1B@acm.org>

Ignore the last sentence ?I emailed him back, stating three? It was a 
fragment of an earlier edit of the letter and should have been deleted.

Herbert Kanner
kanner at acm.org
650-326-8204

Question authority and the authorities will question you.




On Jul 4, 2014, at 8:55 PM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote:

> Brian is a prince among men. 
> 
> A couple of days ago, I tried to post pictures on the Leica Gallery and 
> all steps seemed to execute normally, except that the pictures never 
> appeared. A day later, I made a second attempt with the consequence that 
> my entire album vanished! Gone into outer space! 
> 
> I got in touch with Brian immediately. He said that the pictures were one 
> thing, but that accompanying data was another, that he had never tried to 
> do a partial restore from backup, but that he would do his best. After 
> another exchange of email about my priorities for alternate solutions, he 
> said that the only alternative was my least desirable one, that he had 
> worked on it all day, and that it should be done within the hour. Also 
> that he had not written that software.
> 
> Well. It looks as if everything has been restored, including the titles 
> and file numbers of the pictures. It?s just that the sequence of the shots 
> is a bit random and most of them bear today?s date. Also, all history of 
> the number of views is gone. I?m quite happy with the result. Neither of 
> us seems to have any idea why it happened, but all praise to Brian for 
> exerting himself that much to restore my stuff in a timely manner.
> 
> I emailed him back, stating three 
> Herbert Kanner
> kanner at acm.org
> 650-326-8204
> 
> Question authority and the authorities will question you.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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