Thankyou So&So

 

Nearly five years ago my laptop crashed, and the following week my back-up hard-drive corrupted.  Thankfully most of my records were still available on a much older hard-drive, but there were still some important files I was unable to access.

Among them were nearly all my photographs from 2015 to 2018.  I mourned those photos and always hoped that one day I might take the laptop to an expert somewhere and maybe, just maybe, it would be possible to “rescue” them.

My husband died soon afterwards and the laptop disappeared into all the other bits and pieces that got packed away through all the upheaval and put into storage.

It got unpacked again when I moved in to live with Son, but got pushed to the back of a wardrobe and almost forgotten about.

Gore Bay, Cheviot

Recently I was talking with some people and it came up in conversation.  Why not ask So&So if he can help, I was asked – and so I did, and he has!

It apparently took a bit of working to get into the laptop system, but all my files were still there.

Grand Hotel, Akaroa

I have spent a few hours today looking through them (now on a terabyte external solid-state hard-drive) and all I can say is THANKYOU to So&So for all his help. 

I am so thrilled to be able to see my photos again.  They included three major trips away, two down to Christchurch and the other one trekking at Abel Tasman National Park.

Awaroa Beach, Abel Tasman NP

Photographs may only be records of memory, but they can be very precious to us and I am so happy to see these ones again.

Margaret 😊

 

(The photos are all “rescued” ones from my three trips away.)