I feel sick, not from a bug or any type of viral infection. Nope, I feel sick because I had an awful no good very bad day. Here's why...
Genius me, decided that my laptop was running toooo slllooowww, so I decided to copy all of my files to a new external hard drive... it took hours and hours while I waited for things to copy over (being an art teacher & a photographer you tend to carry around a lot of digital baggage) & then I went through, triple checked that everything had copied, even to the point where I checked that the file sizes were the same.... ejected my hard drive as I was supposed to, doing everything I knew how to do correctly... then I deleted the files on my desktop. No biggie right? Plus, I have another external hard drive & my husband's computer where things were triple backed up- sure if I lost any info I'd lost the newest documents but I had already made sure they were on the external hard drive.
So, when I sent my files to the recycle bin it said that the files were too big & did I want to delete them permanently. I said "sure" they are, after all, triple backed up...ha ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
So, I plugged in my external hard drive yesterday to get a power point doc I was going to show my students & guess what? HALF of all of my work documents were NOT THERE. So I thought- no biggie, I'll just go home during my prep, get on Evan's computer & get it then. ha ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Yep, you guess it. They were NOT backed up like I thought... so I checked our home server & my other external hard drive where I had gotten the documents from in the first place...... again. EMPTY
WHAT THE)#*$)(#&@)$&)*#%&*(#%&)*#&!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Luckily, Evan was home & helped me get a recovery program. Then, 36 hours later....
Most of the files are corrupted. My life for 5 years of gathering resources, fixing my curriculum & power points... gone. Good thing I still have most of the stuff for the classes I'm currently teaching!!!!!!!!
BUT- I lost all of my design work I spent hours on during Christmas break for my photography business.. that makes me want to crawl into bed & say %&@)#*%&@#$)*(&@$)&@#$)*&#@$%*&@#%)&!@$)(&@#$)(*&@#%)*&@#%)*&@#)&*#)%(*!@$(*!@$)(&*@#$)*&@#)$%&*!@)$&@#$)*&!@$)(&!@$)&#$*&#$%)(&!@#)$(&!@#)$*&!@$)(&!@$)*&!#$)*&!#$*&!#$%)(&!$)(&!@#$)(&@#%)*&@#%)&*%*&^)@#*_(&&%&$%()@)(*
Because I might as well have gone on a fun trip, rather than waste all of that time trying to make my business look better so that I could get more clients & make more money & improve my portfolio. F.
So I've decided that I'm not going to worry about it. I still have all of my personal & professional photographs because luckily, those did not get deleted. The rest can go on the back burner until I freaking feel like spending hours on stuff again.
I just want to also say thank you wonderful husband for helping for several hours trying to recover all of that stuff & thank you Pro Digital Photos for still having my DVD case images on file & emailing them back to me. & Thank you Lord for allowing me the opportunity to learn how to keep a positive attitude when I choose not to listen to that little voice before I do something stupid... several times...
