Well, we heard the devastating news today: our hard drive is DEAD. The company that we sent the drive to said that it had been mechanically destroyed by the reader needle, which must have gotten off balance somehow. As James described it, it is as if someone took a CD, scratched it all over with a screwdriver, and then tried to play it. Not a possibility.
We have lost:
1) All digital photos from 6 years ago to today
2) most of our digital videos from vacations
3) all of our music (though we can recover most from our iPod)
So, we have a commission to our faithful readers: If you have digital photos of trips or events that James and I (and Norah or Samuel) were there for, could you burn them to a CD and send them to us in the mail? We will try to piece our photo collection back together with your help. We will have lost some really great shots (particularly from our trip to the Grand Canyon, and another trip out West), but we hope we can get some of the more important occasions back.
We will buy a new hard drive soon, and put some more recent photos (still in our camera) on the blog soon.
Oh, and a note to those of you who are thinking: "I should get an external hard drive and back up all my data ASAP so this doesn't happen to me!": the company we sent our drive to discourages that since most of the drives they try to recover data from ARE external drives--they tend to fail a lot. So, we will probably be using an online back-up system from now on. Lesson learned. The hard way.
--Chiara
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