He gave me back 10 years of our life

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A year or so ago this hard drive said: "That's it. I'm not working anymore". When I saw that blue screen on my computer my face went white as paper, and my jaw dropped down to the floor. In my Pictures folder, 10 years of our life as family and the first years of my career as a designer were erased in one second. Yes, you can tell me how stupid I was I didn't have any copies. I was really stupid not to protect such valuable thing!

Alex tried many times to recovered the information many months ago… and he could not do it. Crying for more than two days I took this picture of the drive with the idea that each time I saw it I could see inside it and remember…

A couple of weeks ago, one of the Art Gallery servers went down and my computer guy (aka Alex) was on the phone with another computer guy from the server's company trying to solve the problem, and he tried to run a new program to recover data on that drive he thought lost. After a few days and much battling, he showed me a new folder on his computer with the name "I COULD RECOVER ALL THE DATA OF YOUR DRIVE". Every picture and document was there again!! I was jumping up to the ceiling!! By a stroke of his genius, he gave me back 10 years of our life…

I am SO HAPPY that I made an album on Facebook with the name "Ten years of my life" and I dedicated to him. I posted some and I plan to post more… Here are some of them!

Barco-Lighthouse-Point-020_editedThe Bravo family and Pat's short hair version :)

 

Concierto Alex May 2003 017After a school concert where Alex played trumpet


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My beloved Sheebo with not that much white hair on his face. He started with some problems with his vision… LOL


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At my sister's 37th birthday party. She is beautiful, isn't she?


Andrea-044webAlex with his grandma and cousin Caroline in Argentina


Graduacion Alex 8 grade 5-2003 007Celebration after he graduated from elementary school! You can see how proud daddy is!!


Now I have 3 copies of all the pictures stored.

I can't stop looking at them. 

Thank you Alex. You made me so happy.

I LOVE YOU.

 

Pat

 

10 responses to “He gave me back 10 years of our life”

  1. Peach Rainbow Avatar

    That’s amazing!
    Lovely pictures :D

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  2. Bon Avatar
    Bon

    I run a small computer business and I have seen this many times where people do not back up. But usually all is not lost thanks to some great programs out there or you can spend thousands for a special company to get the data back. I have been talking most of my customers into off site back up it can be fairly inexpensive and a lot of Internet Service Providers are offering it for free. That way if your house is destroyed you still have your data and photos etc. Glad you got it all back.

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  3. Jackie Avatar

    That is fantastic!! I know what that is like too! Several years ago our computer also crashed and we were able to recover the information, fortunately. However, we went out and purchased a MAC and with it we purchased the Time Capsule/Time Machine, it is an external hard drive that backs up our entire computer every hour. So now we will never lose anything again. Great pictures! Off to Facebook!

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  4. 2hippos Avatar

    Congratulations! I have thousands of images of research (for work) stored on my computer and backed up in 2 places but I’m still terrified of losing them….it’s amazing how technology can both help and harm so easily. I’m so glad for you that you got everything back.

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  5. Victoria Avatar
    Victoria

    Congratulations! What a wonderful feeling!!
    I lost the first year of my daughter’s life when my iPhone crashed. I sync them every 2 months now. Such a hard lesson to learn.

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  6. Patricia Bravo Avatar

    Thank you for the great advice Bon! I’ve heard about these off site backing up sites, but I wasn’t sure how exactly worked. I’ll make sure to investigate more about them! Love,

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  7. Patricia Bravo Avatar

    I totally agree! Is always terrifying and I’ve lived it! Thanks for your your warm comments :) Love,

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  8. Patricia Bravo Avatar

    That’s true Vicky, a very hard lesson. I’m so glad you recovered your blossom’s first year! All my love,

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  9. Patricia Bravo Avatar

    My son Alex is a Mac guru! After years of using a PC, he convinced me to switch to a Mac and I’m so happy I did :) Love,

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  10. helen mills Avatar

    I too have lost photos because my hard drive had had enough and cried at my own stupidity for not having a backup…I suppose I should have been upset at my loss of business documents as well but it was the loss of those pictures of my husband and i starting our life adventure that hurts the most. I am so happy for you that I could cry as well.

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