Russian roulette - Part 2
Yesterday I lost about 3 weeks of photos, due to my own stupidity. The last 20 or so photos that I posted here are all that are left of the last 3 weeks. Most of the Internet Cafes computers in the world are pure garbage, pieces missing, keyboards unreadable, viruses galore. I had trouble backing up my last 2GB photo card and then I did the unthinkable … somehow I put the wrong camera card back in my camera and re-formatted it. That was it. Two seconds later all of the last 3 weeks was gone. Uruguay, southern Argentina, Mexico. Gone. I was sick.
At least I have the 20 or so photos posted here on ‘snowfree.tumblr.com’.
If there are lessons to be learned here they are.
- When travelling you can not rely on Internet Cafes. Most have viruses and most do NOT have DVD drives.
- Back up often. Not easy … photo stores that can burn DVDs are not always as close to where you are staying as you would hope.
- We didn’t bring a computer, but we should have purchased one of those tiny PCs to do a daily backup of photos.
- Bring more camera memory cards than you need. More is better.
- Before re-formatting any memory card have someone with higher intelligence than yourself verify it.
What’s done is done. Maybe I can resurrect some of the photos from the re-formatted card. I doubt it but who knows? At least the posted ‘tumblr’ photos are still available.
Warren McBride
3 years ago • Notes