The Story of Lost Pictures/Photographs
This topic of lost
photographs has been in my mind for a long time now. It resurfaces time and
again and was foremost in my mind when my daughter deleted some pictures of our
Rajasthan trip mistakenly while transferring them from mobile to laptop. My
husband had earlier connected a pen drive to the laptop without scanning and
the infected pen drive had let in a virus which would not allow the lost
pictures to be retrieved. My daughter lost her sleep for two days and she tried
her level best to recover the lost pictures. It actually reminded me of my
predicament about 6 years ago when I had lost pictures mistakenly by deleting
without giving a second thought. These pictures were of our Andamans trip as
well as my nature pictures.
The second recent
most instance of losing photographs happened when I kept using my old laptop
which had the outdated Windows XP and I kept using it despite warnings from my
daughter. Luckily, we could recover some few of the snaps with the help of a
computer expert who loaded the new operating system to recover data.
Photographs
document our lives and we all really love and enjoy seeing them over again to
relive the memories. This activity transports us to a happy zone to recall all
the fun and memorable times we had. Photographs are indeed precious treasures
and we take great efforts to preserve them in forms of negatives, prints and
albums and in today’s digital age, of course, in digital formats.
It is quite disastrous to lose this
precious treasure. The loss of photographs can be attributed to many factors
like poor upkeep, maintenance, weathering and so on. In today’s digital age,
you lose data due to so many reasons and so the photographs and pictures get
lost in the process. I lost mine due to a silly mistake like deleting without
thinking twice as I have mentioned above. It literally put me into depression.
I took quite some time to come out of it. I pacified myself by thinking that
people lose near and dear ones, so what are photographs, memories are actually
etched in our hearts. Pictures are just extensions of those memories.
The precautions that you can take to
preserve your digital images is to always take a backup. If you have not taken
a backup, then recovery software might help you to recover your lost pictures. Recovery
software is freely available on trial basis and if you wish to extend the
services, it comes with a charge. Be careful while transferring. Always give a
second thought before deleting data. Backup is a must to preserve digital
pictures. I have learnt my lesson after losing my precious pictures. Hope my
experience helps you all folks too. Happy clicking and preserving.
