Ever turn on your camera and it shows NO images? You turn it off and on again. Nothing. A sick feeling starts to grow in the pit of your stomach. You haven’t transferred the images off your card in months. Your mind races and thinks back to what events were on that card. Oh boy!
It’s a doozy … Your child’s first birthday … Your great-great grandfather’s 90th birthday … A before & after home reno still in progress. The list goes on.
Many of us have been there and it’s not pretty. For those that haven’t, you think … Meh, won’t happen to me. But really it could.
I wanted to blog about a few simple things you can do to significantly lower your risk of this happening. First things first. You should regularly copy important images to your computer AND back them up (keeping a third copy off-site is also a good idea). Secondly, once you copy them over to your computer (and back them up) you should reformat your card in-camera before using it again . Why? Because when you just copy over what was deleted, there is more chance of a card error because the camera is trying to write over info instead of saving on a “clean slate”.
There are recovery programs out there, just Google and you’ll find a whole whack of them. I hear of good results, but sometimes you just can’t get those images back. Better to be safe than sorry … make a back-up!
Have you ever lost precious images or were you able to save them?
Shelly ♥
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