Glitch #1:
It all started with me inadvertently deleting ALL the pictures in our MY PICTURES folder. Before leaving for St. Louis Memorial Day weekend I hooked up my Zune to sync it with all the latest CD's I'd ripped from the library, etc. for the kids to listen to in the car, a few new audio books, etc. It'd been months and months since I'd hooked it up to the PC, and consequently had a few updates that needed to run. In the process, it downloaded the entire MY PICTURES folder to my Zune.
I should explain that our MY PICTURES folder is HUGE. It currently holds all the pictures we've taken from 2005-2008, in addition to all edited photos for printing, digital picture frames that the Grandma's both have, etc. And since we average 5-8,000 pictures per year, sigh, it was way more than I needed on my Zune and a huge loss when they all disappeared, despite my best efforts to make sure that the process I used in deleting the photos wasn't deleting them from the PC, just the Zune.
Thankfully, GR was able to recover about 80% of the lost pictures, but the program he used recovered every single, possible .JPG, not just those that resided in the MY PICTURES FOLDER. So I now have a huge organizational project on my to-do list.
Glitch #2:
We have a small file server to hold all our documents, pictures, music and video files, etc. Well the little black box that allows the file server and the desktop to talk to one another decided to die Friday night, just as GR was preparing to leave for Seattle for a few days. All the information is there and fine, we just can't access it ...
Glitch #3:
When GR headed to Seattle he took the only mini USB to USB cord I know of in the house ... the only cord I know of to use to download pictures from the camera to the PC. No Pictures means no blog posts, for this girl. When he called from the airport to say his flights were all on time, he said he lost the cord in the hotel ....
Glitch #4:
As a result of all the picture mayhem, the ZUNE is now in need of repair. The port at the bottom of the devise that allows it to charge, connect to the PC, Car Radio, etc. got damaged thanks to a damaged cord that needed to be "forcibly" removed? I'm now in the process of trying to figure out exactly when GR gave it to me last summer and obtain the proof of purchase needed to determine if it is still under warranty ... let's hope it was an anniversary (etc.) gift, and not a mother's day (etc.) gift.
My "dead" ZUNE left me in the middle of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ... around chapter 16 or so, GR suggested I start reading the book, but he's lent it out, so I'm thinking I'll check the CDs out at the library instead of waiting for all the above glitches to resolve themselves so I can access the remaining HP MP3 files and download them to his ZUNE.
3 comments:
Oh how I hate how helpless and frustrated I feel when the electronics conspire against me:)
Not to mention the occasional not so good words that flit through my mind.
But you sound very "in control" and matter of fact about all your very sad fiascos:)
Oh no, no, I was anything but in control when it came to the pictures. That was serious, I just left out that part of the story out ... you know the part where I was crying hysterically - worse than the Oprah 'ugly' cry - at 11:30pm when I discovered they were all gone, totally gone. It took 'til nearly 3am for me to calm down enough to sleep for a few hours.
oh, k8, that just makes me sick to my stomach to think about. I am *so* sorry.
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