Destroyed
I had recently purchased a new camera. The Canon 5D Mark II and I have made it a habit to shoot in RAW format. RAW are files which are not compressed by the camera thus they contain all the colour information that other programs like Photoshop and Lightroom use to manipulate the images. RAW files also take up lots of space because they are, well, larger files. And I mean BIG. 22 mega bytes per photo, times that by, say, 200 per photo shoot and you have a few GB of material. So it was only a matter of time before my current 250GB harddrive became digitally obese.
Thus I bought a nice new 1 TB external.
I had just successfully transferred all my files over to the 1 TB. <Transfer Complete> it read on my monitor – after the 7hrs that it took, and me hoping the storm raging around me didn’t cut the power. Kind of like one of those bastard power surges that fuck up all your electronics. There was one. I did it myself.
See. Laptop cables and this particular make of external harddrive both share identical cables. Well they look identical when they’re just hooked on the top of the table as you busying yourself with ‘room cleanup-to-make-way-for-the-new-harddrive duties’. And there you have it. It put the wrong chord in and in less than a second all my photos of were gone. To add insult to injury, I had just deleted the previous copy from the old 250GB harddive saying to myself “why on earth would I need two separate copies?”
I now know why.
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