Trapped in Matter

24,000 Images Later

I made the mistake of accidentally erasing my photos folder today. I was cleaning up and reorganizing my pictures folder, and relocating it to another drive when the unspeakable took place. Instead of erasing each file or subfolders as I relocated them I decided to leave them on the old drive until I was completely finished. I bypassed the iPhoto folder, leaving it for last. Well, thinking I was finished moving files, I went ahead and put the old directory into the 'Trash' and immediately emptied it. No sooner than I lifted my finger from the mouse button I realized that I had just erased around 12GB of photos. FUCK!!

With the help of Data Rescue II & iView MediaPro, I think I have recovered nearly every photo. After scanning for deleted image files I was left with 24 folders containing 1,000 images per folder. Every deleted image was pulled, including web browser cache files. Recovering deleted files really sucks since the folder names and folder hierarchy and filename are destroyed, and you're left with 'jp19992x3444.jpg' as a filename.

So far I have spent 7 hours of my life sorting this mess out.

Remember kids, back-up your important computer data often!

posted by Crackpot! @ 6:21 PM