I've been working on a project at home, to put up a series of picture frames in our family room that would hold selected images from the extensive digital photo images that I've shot over the years...
When my old computer died, and I got a new one, I transfered the old hard drives to external USB enclosures. this also upset the database I use to catalog the photos. So, I had to go in and tell the software that the image that used to be here on this disk, is now over on this disk and this directory structure. I had been tagging my images so that if I wanted to see something an image of a place or a person, I could just call it up.
I had been working on the database fixes all week. I got them all done.
I had just started to select the photos. I knew of a a few that I needed to include on the wall I was going to select more than the number of frames I was mounting, just so I can see what they look like printed.
I cam home tonight after work, went on my machine to do more photo selection. I thought I had smelled an odd odor in my den. It wasn't strong, but it smelled like ozone.
My machine was locked-up. Frozen. I cold-booted the machine, and logged back in.
And that's when I heard it... a clicking noise.
My one big, critical drive from the old machine is clicking, and not mounting.
It's dead. I lost it.
All 34,000 photos I've taken.
NO BACKUP.
I've lost it. I've lost it all. All my photos, documents, spreadsheet, tax information...
Depression sets in...
2008
2005- Let's close this up...
2004- Vegas, baby
2003- B & B & the movies
2002- No Friday 5