About 2 weeks ago I was done organizing all my pictures in folders, etc. I thought "time to back them up" since I had not backed up anything on my iMac yet.
Assuming my iPhoto was duplicating pictures (at least it looked like it) I decided to empty a folder with about 4200 pictures in it. My pictures were all in the right folders so I thought that folder had duplicated pictures. WRONG! After I clicked "ok" I realized I had deleted all the pictures I had saved from the last 12 months. About 4200!
Immediately, I got this feeling all over me of emptiness. I started to cry like, I can't remember when I cried like that.
I called Wes's cousin right away bawling. He works with computers and I was hoping he could help me.
Long story short, after $100 in expenses, Paul was able to recover my pictures. Woot Woot! Well, not only the pictures I lost but also thousands more. I have about 10 folders with about 10000 pictures EACH (yes, ten thousand)! Duplicated pictures, old ones, weird ones. Now, I need to go through every folder and look for the pictures I lost. Then I need to sort them all again to keep only the ones I want. I take hundreds of pictures every time I go somewhere, then I keep the ones I like.
It will take a long time to do this. I was not planing on reorganizing pictures at this time of my life. Bottom line is - my fault and I need to accept it and move on.
YES, I am, oh, so so grateful I was able to get them back. If I had backed them up when I was supposed to, I would've had them back in minutes. I learned that I need to follow my instincts and do what I need to do right away - don't procrastinate Juliana!
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