Lessons Learned....

I wanted to share some pictures from our family vacation at Myrtle Beach the week of the 12th. I took about 375 pictures during our vacation with family. I should have made my slide show when I downloaded the pictures, and I would still have them. When we returned, I down loaded all of the pictures to my hubby's Mac on last Monday into Iphoto.
I did load about 5 pictures on my FB account and I will share those, since that is all I have.

On Thursday, my husband installed a program on his Mac that was given to him so that he could look at our neighborhood's security camera's and not have to use my PC to monitor the activity at the amenities in the neighborhood. Needless to say, when he installed the program there was some sort of glitch with running it and the program kept running. He made an appointment and took the computer to the Apple Store to have the techs look at it. Unfortunately all of our pictures from June and July that he had not backed up.

However, the pictures are somewhere on the computer and we will probably have to pay several hundred dollars for a recovery specialist to find the missing pictures and all of the data that we had. So, hopefully, one of hubby's co workers will be able to retrieve everything so that we will not have to lose the recent data put on the computer. If not, we are waiting on one of the locations that the Apple store recommended for a recovery specialists. The Apple store did not wipe it clean on yesterday so that we would have an opportunity to have a recovery specialist to recover the data to try to recover the recent information saved on the computer.

Let this be a lesson learned to all, to immediately back up all of your pictures instantly when you download them. I am praying and hoping that are our pictures will be recovered by the specialists. I was one of the main persons taking pictures of everyone at the beach and I captured so many beautiful shots of everyone during that week. We had so many family members present that it would be a shame to lose all of those pictures.
Besides that, mostly everyone was relying on me to email or send the pictures out on discs so that they could print their own pictures. This was truly a hurtful lesson to learn on my behalf. In addition, I was in the process of putting our family vacation into our profile for the adoption agency. It is really a shame.