Nani
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It's Nani, I'm back!
I've been pretty much silent, still shopping, but not scrapping. I had a major hard drive fiasco at the end of last year and I lost more than 50 pages I'd done. I'd been scrapping like a madwoman, in the creative zone and I'd put pages on my EHD, but not the backup yet. I always double backup but was so engrossed creatively I was behind. I had finished all the December files and in November of last year I was completely caught up through August 2017!
When I started the process of copying my files over, I head a nasty grinding sound, then a pop. My heart sank. Not only did the 50 some odd folders not copy, but the drive corrupted! I thought I might be able to save the info, but it was going to take sending my drive to St. Louis and a $400 bill if they could retrieve the data. A techie friend of Mr Nani had rescued info from a hard drive for him and said he'd do it. Biggest problem there was that he really didn't know what to do with a Mac disk but went ahead and tried anyway. Sigh. He apologized because he could only save part of my drive. It ended up being a few kits and my miscellaneous freebie elements file with were already on the double backup disk.
I was winded. I totally lost my mojo and desire to scrap at all for a few months. I tried, there has even been a few layouts I posted here, but not my best work. so I took a break.
Moral of the story - backup, backup, backup! I'm good at saving constantly while I'm working, I need to save my finished pages to BOTH hard drives. One is a complete copy of the other, all my scrapbook stuff, but it's only 2 complete copes if I keep the double saving up.
So now I'm back for real. I have the obsessive itch to open up Photoshop and move back in! Many of the lost files are posted in my gallery and I'll use those originals to rebuild the pages but even more of them are only saved in my memory but I'll catch back up. Maybe I might even be caught up again by the end of the year. I'm going to return to my layout a day goal. I'm going to scrap the now and add in the reconstruction to keep myself smiling while I'm creating.
It's good to be back!
I've been pretty much silent, still shopping, but not scrapping. I had a major hard drive fiasco at the end of last year and I lost more than 50 pages I'd done. I'd been scrapping like a madwoman, in the creative zone and I'd put pages on my EHD, but not the backup yet. I always double backup but was so engrossed creatively I was behind. I had finished all the December files and in November of last year I was completely caught up through August 2017!
When I started the process of copying my files over, I head a nasty grinding sound, then a pop. My heart sank. Not only did the 50 some odd folders not copy, but the drive corrupted! I thought I might be able to save the info, but it was going to take sending my drive to St. Louis and a $400 bill if they could retrieve the data. A techie friend of Mr Nani had rescued info from a hard drive for him and said he'd do it. Biggest problem there was that he really didn't know what to do with a Mac disk but went ahead and tried anyway. Sigh. He apologized because he could only save part of my drive. It ended up being a few kits and my miscellaneous freebie elements file with were already on the double backup disk.
I was winded. I totally lost my mojo and desire to scrap at all for a few months. I tried, there has even been a few layouts I posted here, but not my best work. so I took a break.
Moral of the story - backup, backup, backup! I'm good at saving constantly while I'm working, I need to save my finished pages to BOTH hard drives. One is a complete copy of the other, all my scrapbook stuff, but it's only 2 complete copes if I keep the double saving up.
So now I'm back for real. I have the obsessive itch to open up Photoshop and move back in! Many of the lost files are posted in my gallery and I'll use those originals to rebuild the pages but even more of them are only saved in my memory but I'll catch back up. Maybe I might even be caught up again by the end of the year. I'm going to return to my layout a day goal. I'm going to scrap the now and add in the reconstruction to keep myself smiling while I'm creating.
It's good to be back!
Fortunately I have the memories, but I'm missing the photos!
Happy Scrapping!!
