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It was one of my first the folder while I was downloading Then a friend who knows about
professionalshootsforaclient somenewfilesfromamodelportfolio computers came over and he made
– jewellery photography for shoot – and I can only assume that mefeelabitbetterwhenhesaidthat
MarshaAustin’ssuperbhandmade
somehowIreplacedtheentirefolder. nearlyallfilescouldberetrievedfrom
designsatTranslationsJewellery.
Panicsetinbigtime. an external hard drive, even though
Anditwasallgoingsowelltoo.
I searched everywhere on the theymighthavebeendeleted.
TheshootwentexactlytoplanandI
computer,time,aftertime,aftertime
cameawaywitheverythingIneeded.
–butnothing. However, it turned out that my hard
I even emailed some images and
drivehadbeensofullthefileshadall
producedasmallprintout.
ThenIsearchedonlineforapossible beenoverwritten.
Theclient’swebsitedesignerstarted
methodofretrievingtheimagesandI I was completely devastated. I had
todohisplanningbasedonthelow-
found a piece of software that taken over 2,000 images on that
resprintoutimagesIsuppliedhim.
scanned for deleted files from shoot.
Forsomereasonafewweekspassed
externalharddrives. AllIcoulddothenwasworkveryhard
by without my having to hand over
ItlookedlikeagoodideabecauseI tokeeptheclienthappyandputinall
the actual high-res images of the
would only have to pay for files the extra effort needed to fulfil the
jewellery.
retrieved. It did bring back a few brief.Ididitintheendbut thiswasa
picturesandIpaidthe£30package veryhardlessonlearnt.
Thentotaldisasterandmayhem.
fee–onlytothendiscoverthatmost It’sreallynojokewhenthecomputer
of the images were half grey, or not says‘No’.
Istilldon’tknowhowithappenedbut
therightpicturesatall.
theimageshadjustdisappearedright
Iwasatmywits’end. Thephotographer’smantrahastobe:
offthefaceoftheearthandintosome
HereIwas–abouttoletdownaclient backup, backup backup – and give
aliencyberspaceabyss.
who had trusted me to do a the client the images as soon as
Icanrememberaccidentlyclickingon
professionaljob. possibleaftertheshoot.”
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