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jimbo45 said:

Hi there.

I know it sounds callous but surely if you had 25 years of photos that you treasured would you only have them on one piece of media -- I've still got some of my old negatives (35 mm) from the time before digital cameras became even half way decent and affordable and if shove came to push I could still even develop these the old fashioned way with a developing tank (black and white stuff) - apart from re-scanning again etc.

I know that shouldn't excuse an OS from wiping people's data but I can't really have sympathy with people who don't at least make some provision for dealing with potential problems with archiving data -- we've all being going on for years that people should always have backup never mind how primitive it is --even bog standard file explorer to external devices is infinitely better than none -- and external devices are cheap these days.

Sorry there but this is one "sob story" I have zero sympathy for. (I'm not usually mean BTW but this is a case of "serves you right").

Cheers
jimbo

I completely agree, but sometimes it just doesnt factor into people's thought until the deed is done.

swarfega said:

I completely agree, but sometimes it just doesnt factor into people's thought until the deed is done.

Well I disagree.. there are oldies out there that need to be considered.. they grew up in a protected environment.

It's not expected that they are tech savvy... they are still thinking Kodak film that can be reproduced... not digital.

Just how much of digital photography was there 25 years ago ?

CountMike said:

Just how much of digital photography was there 25 years ago ?

You missed the point... it's not about photography.

Its about loosing your personal files.

Superfly said:

You missed the point... it's not about photography.

The story was about 25 year old digital pictures.

I've got about 2.5 TB of photo history on my harddrives. That includes photos from 40 years ago. Nothing special about that.

CountMike said:

The story was about 25 year old digital pictures.

I have pictures that old that I have scanned in.

kado897 said:

I have pictures that old that I have scanned in.

I have stereoscopic glass plates from 1903 of my grandmother's wedding but those are not digital.