On 28 May 2013, at 13:07, Eric Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > > On May 27, 2013, at 12:34 PM, steve harley wrote: > >> that is the most likely explanation; also consider any changes you've made >> since you last used LR (such as folder or drive names) > > Thanks, Steve. Wish that it were so. Unfortunately it seems not to be. > > Yesterday afternoon I downloaded StellarPhoenixMacDataRecovery and set it to > work scanning for photo files. It churned away till about 7:30 AM this > morning. The result? "No data found." I take that as final and conclusive. [I > didn't have to pay for the app to run it on my drive. If it'd found anything > I would have had to pay for it to recover it.] > > In my initial post yesterday I asked how this could have been avoided. I have > two thoughts: [1] Trust Time Machine, which accumulates backups till the > drive being used runs out of space. [My daily backups to two drives, which > provided only two days of backups, was worthless.] [2] Don't leave your > database unattended for extended periods of time. Visit frequently. > > If I had done both of this, especially the second, I would not have > experienced this disaster.
You also need to figure out how and why it went missing so you can stop it happening again. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
