"RoseGarden" - - - - - - - from - nscave

After all this  preaching about backups and creating safe guards, I learned a lesson yesterday.

 

 

It was 31 deg. C. (88 deg.F.) here yesterday, so a drive to the seashore was in order in  search of cooler temperatures.

 

 

During the to and from trip, I captured quite a few good videos with the dash mounted cam with the intention of editing them into something pleasing later on.

 

 

 

In the evening I proceeded to move them from the SD card to the computer for that purpose.

 

 

 

Many times when doing that I have always had the thought I should copy them from the card to the computer, then delete them from the card after to be safe.

 

 

 

I thought that, but didn’t do it. I will from now on.

 

 

 

I don’t know for sure if something went wrong or human error caused each videos to disappear. I suspect the latter.

 

 

I used a recovery program, but most of them recovered corrupt. Fortunately these videos are easy to replace, it could have been worse.

 

 

 

So my simple advice when moving files, photos or videos:

Copy to – then Delete!

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