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About 8.5 years ago that happened which is the bane of every digital photographer. I lost, in essence, all my originals. At the time I had them stored on a USB drive that one day just decided that life was not fun anymore and it stopped working.

Hours of recovery work with the tools of that day and I have maybe gotten back a bit more than half of my material, but some remained lost. From that day on wards I’ve used NAS:es as double backups and in later years, cloud storage to keep the material spread in a few select locations

Two weeks ago, I had another brush with sudden panic as a memory card from my camera stopped saying there were anything on it, so I did the same thing again, but this time with the tools of this day… and managed to recover all the pictures say three… which I think might have been overexposed anyway.

Now, the hard drive from the original crash I’ve kept around, hoping that one day I might be able to recover something off it that I hadn’t before.

And this weekend I was able to do so.

First I had to make the drive readable again… since that had been one reason it failed to work.. corrupt file tables. That took a few hours.

Then I ran the same recovery program as for the memory card and waited… 9+ hours of waiting until a small ping informed me it finished. It had managed to recover about 75000 files (jpg, cr2, xmp etc.) from the wreckage that was its’ sectors. All that remains for me now is to a) sort all the material, b) build a script that will search for duplicates, since there are quite a few, and c) create a new baseline backup for everything.