
Well all I can say is what a couple of days. We all don’t think it is going to happen to us, but believe me it does. HARD DRIVE FAILURE!!!! Yes I was processing an image in Photoshop when all of a sudden… my external portable hard-drive where I keep my photographs stopped working.
First of all I thought was it the laptop? No… the drive wouldn’t work on my desktop. Anyway by chance, we hadn’t been out a lot this year.. and the last time I backed up my drive was in Autumn 2017. So I didn’t lose many originals. But I lost all my PSD’s of images I created in Luminar and other Software programs.
Now something I did learn from this… is this. If you create smart previews of your images. You can export them again, as full-size DNG photos should your hard-drive crash and you no longer have the originals. By chance I managed to save some.. but I did lose quite a few images.
So tips from me… to you….
- Back up, Back up, and Back up again.
- Create smart previews of everything in your Lightroom Catalogue.. if by chance you do have a crash.. Lightroom will export the smart preview as a DNG File.
- Make sure you create smart previews of all edits that are imported back into Lightroom.
- Creating smart previews can be done at import… or you can simply go to your Library Module, click on Library → Previews → Build Smart Previews.
And the above image is part of the Flower of the Day hosted by Cee Neuner.
I keep a copy on the cloud so I never lose anything.
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I am seriously thinking of doing that… who do you use?
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I have been using Microsoft Onedrive. Now I have switched to an Apple iMac and will use iCloud in the future.
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Little did I realise that I get unlimited photo storage as an Amazon Prime member… uploading to prime… I can’t go through all this again.
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This is a beautiful bird of paradise. 😀
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Thank you xx
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I recently lost a lot of photos, because my computer crashed. Fortunately they are also on my blog!
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Yes the images I lost by luck are on my blog but only 1000px longest edge and are in jpeg not raw.. it will teach me to back up in future.
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