So a couple weeks ago Bug clicked a toy car on my laptop keyboard and it started running super slow. I tried a few things and then shut it off so that our resident IT guy could handle it (Robert). We believe that my laptop was likely warning of some issue regarding updates and what not but I didn't properly heed. Blessedly, I had updated early in May, so I wouldn't lose much. And Robert is obsessed with making sure we have accurate ways to back up and keep our stuff in the event of a hard drive taking a dive. For whatever reason though, nothing has worked. Robert even purchased a program for $120 that is suppose to be really great at retrieving lost info from the hard drive. Anyway, none of the computer lingo means much to me. My man knows computers, he's done everything he can and it still isn't happening. Here is some of the stuff I will lose if we can't retrieve my hard drive. Files: Homeschooling- Many, many original documents I made as pertaining to homeschooling. Schedules, lesson plans, reading plans for certain books, articles from on line. So so much. Christian teachings- My notes from anytime I taught a bible study, anytime I read something on-line that I wanted to save to read again later. Church- Documents I made for any organizing I did for church functions House Management- Countless original documents! Schedules, rules, expectations, verses, organization tools out the wazoo. Birth- Dozens and dozens of medical studies and articles speaking to birth interventions, home birth, hospital birth. Prenatal, postnatal, ALL natal. Breastfeeding- Same as birth only breastfeeding. Puppy and Monkey book- This is a book Hurricane has started writing and I've been typing it up with her for later publication. Priceless. Research about Leslie- This is a missionary from the early 1900s I have been researching. Many hours of copying and pasting really old missionary magazines into documents. Spelling Bee- About 40 documents that I had to keep organized for the homeschool spelling bee. Jasper writings- Basically my private (some public) journal in my processes of grieving Jasper. ...and more I can't remember. All pictures and videos from my phone from the last 4 years. Robert is NOT the picture taker in our family. All of these pictures include back to 2007 when we bought our first digital camera. I made a photo book several years ago that covered up to early 2007 but I hadn't gotten around to making anymore. So without my hard drive we likely have very few pictures from 2007 through 2013 either. Which means, Hurricane, The Boy, Jasper, and Wild Man's baby pictures. Along with the videos taken from my phone. I am in the process of figuring out how to convert this blog into a photo book and that would save a lot of the pictures I've taken. But I don't post more intimate pictures, like babies taking baths together and what not. Honestly, those are only the things I can think of right off hand. I know there is more that I can't remember right off. I believe one or two of our babies' birth videos was only on my hard drive as well. I can find Bug and Hulk's births on Robert's computer but not The Boy's or Wild Man's. Anyway, at this point Robert is trying one other thing today and then we are facing taking the hard drive to a Mac expert to have the files withdrawn manually (or something) and that will cost upwards of $500 potentially. So we are praying over if it is worth that amount of money. So far, I'm thinking it is. Anyway, prayers are appreciated! So far I've only cried once but that is mainly because I'm holding out hope. I mistakenly feel like all of the work I had done on my laptop was proof that I did something. I figured, if I died young my husband and kids would have that to remember me by. This was amazing! We were 2 hours late for lunch and 1 hour late for nap (those of you that know me, know that I'm a stickler for a schedule). This train stopped us and then when we could see the caboose it stopped on the track! After about 5 minutes of sitting still it started going in reverse! By then we had busted open a lot of the food we bought at Meijer's and eaten lunch straight from the packaging.
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Nannie
5/18/2017 01:22:28 pm
I love seeing my babies. I know you bore them but they also belong to me. Love you all. Will be so glad when we can see you again. Maybe God will let my body get back to traveling condition.
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Melissa Barrett
5/19/2017 12:08:24 pm
Oh, Linds!!! Praying now!
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Elizabeth Kirsch
5/19/2017 12:39:03 pm
I had a friend recently go through this and my husband was able to save a lot of it. I'll ask him tonight if it was a specific program he used.
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Anita freeman
5/21/2017 05:35:33 am
I'm so sorry,praying fro you
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