the most horrifying encounter in one's digital world happened to me..
By mishyyu
@mishyyu (217)
Philippines
April 6, 2010 12:17pm CST
it's a nightmare! I'm still hoping its just a nightmare.. have you ever encountered something that makes you feel like all the important moments in your life for the past few years just got erased in a snap of a finger...? as if you have nothing to cling on of the happy memories you've cherished... I'm talking about pictures.. as they say it's worth a thousand words.. and in this techy world, almost all have digicams to capture those memories.. some stores it in a backup file, and others printing it on photo papers.. and me.. I don't know what happened to my cam, all I know is that for the past few months I couldn't transfer the pictures Ive taken since last Christmas to my laptop.. I've tried almost everything.. to no avail I started navigating the settings of my cam.. while doing so I was feeling really sick of a high fever, perhaps I was not in my complete sense of mind, I accidentally reformat my cam... after that not realizing what I really did, I pressed play to see the pictures again.. and there goes the most horrifying message.. "NO IMAGES", I tried to go through all the settings hoping there's an undo or a reverse button... which clearly there's no such thing as that.. and then I put my cam away and cried.. I was telling myself its all gone and asking why.. of all the pictures that were deleted.. one picture that kept showing in my mind is the picture of my 1st baby nephew clapping his hands while his mom, my sister-in-law was holding him and looking happily surprised, and everyone was singing happy birthday.. it was his 1st birthday and it was the perfect birthday pic for me... actually, many pictures got erased too, some of it I have a backup file already but most I don't.. the david cook concert, my rock n roll themed 25th bday party, christmas pictures with friends and family, my baby nephew's 1st bday party, my vacation leave in boracay with friends, and my recent trip to boracay again with my officemates...
5 responses
@apoljuice1 (730)
• Philippines
7 Apr 10
I've been through that. It's very sad to lose a lot of memories. I know that they're possibly the once in a lifetime shots that you can never get back. My husband used to go through that a lot when we were boyfriend and girlfriend. What's really weird is that every time we got into a really huge fight, a problem would occur with my camera phone, or his camera phone and all of the pictures get deleted. EVERY TIME. And you can imagine how many times that's happened whenever we fight. Either the memory would suddenly be full, the phone would reformat itself and a whole bunch of other things. All the pictures we've taken from the last time would be gone And the worst part is that these are usually the best and the ones that we haven't saved on the computer.
If it's true that there's a program that could retrieve your pictures, you really should try looking for it. It would be a big help for you, and possibly you can get your pictures back and be able to save them.
@mishyyu (217)
• Philippines
7 Apr 10
yours is really strange, your phone has some kind of a connection with the happenings.. and yup, your actually right, I was up all night searching for the cure, and finally I found this software but I had to pay 39 dollars for the download, so I've no choice, its my only savior at the moment.. and I did it!! I was so happy and relieved when I saw all the pictures one by one appearing in my laptop as I run the software.. I felt like a miracle.. thanks for the people here in mylot, they're the ones who gave me this idea.. now I'm hoping to earn more from here to pay the 39 dollars I spent just for the pictures...hehe
@tomitomi (5429)
• Singapore
6 Apr 10
hi mishyyu,
a few years back i kept a few albums in one of the websites on the net because of storage problems. first my pc went down. then there was problem with the internet connections. my work too needed lots of attention. and then one day when i thought everything was ok i realized i had lost all my albums because the site it was kept in was closed. the few emails they sent did not reach me as i had a lot to juggle with at that very moment. i tried to request for help for any copy they might have but to no avail. i have never got any back ever since. that's my most horrifying encounter too. just check if any of your friends do have copies of them. to me, even one is better than none. it's hard for me to say but i have learnt to move on. i hope you do.
@mishyyu (217)
• Philippines
6 Apr 10
one is better than none.. that's very encouraging.. your right, I must learn to move on... actually, I've been asking God recently after what happened of what is the purpose that he allowed this to happen to me.. I'm still thinking of reasons why... anyway, thanks for the encouragement..
@grecychunny26 (9483)
• Philippines
19 Apr 10
I remember what happened to me too. it was my younger brother’s graduation in highschool. I already filed a leave of absence from work and borrowed the digital camera of my officemate to capture that very important day of my younger brother’s life. When I went to work I enter the usb of the digital camera and saved the pictures to my computer at the office. Because I already saved it on the office computer I deleted the files on my officemate’s digicam. When I went to work on the other day I checked the photos again, but I was shocked that there were no files left on my computer. Even the old pictures I saved was not there.i asked if someone had done something on my computer and the bosses said they reformat the computer so all the files was not saved. Even the important documents that I used and open everyday were not there too. to my dismay they did not inform me that they will have to reformat the computer. They no longer retrieved the files. Do you how hard it was to say the truth to my brother. I can’t even eat everytime I was thinking about it. One time with my older sister’s help I had been able to say the truth to my brother and he was very sad. I really hate what has happened . I agree it is the worst nightmare. It is not that photo that makes it important, but the memories attached to the photo.
@frontvisions101 (16043)
• Philippines
6 Apr 10
It's alright. You can always create new ones. Atleast you still remember those important ones. That's what really matters, your memories of the event. Not some stupid pictures. Well, next time try to look at what you're pressing before you press it. :)
@mishyyu (217)
• Philippines
6 Apr 10
your right.. i"m actually giving myself a slight pat on the back to make me feel better.. I was also forcing myself to think about world hunger that other people have worst problems than I have... just to make me feel better.. anyways.. its a lesson to learn also...aside from what you advised "try to look what you're pressing".. I also learned not to do anything when you're sick..
@cowboyofhell (3063)
• Philippines
7 Apr 10
I've had the same dark feeling when I lost my sturdy mountain bike. I use to cycle a lot and very fast. I understand what you are going through. I lost my bicycle to a thief. I parked it outside at the wall of an internet cafe in which place I surfed for a few hours. When I went outside the crowd gathered but my bicycle is gone. It limited my range and can't even afford transportation so bad. Now that I can't go anywhere I only stay at home as our internet began last February. I had my lesson too.
