DELETED TOO SOON!

Has this ever happened to you? YOU took some great - now rare and GONE photos! - and can't go back in time to recreate them.

This has just happened to me.

Back some weeks ago when we had some milder days and our snows were melting, I took my cell phone out to get some photos to PROVE I'd had lots of snow in my back yard and garden. Then I forgot about them, but last week I took some photos with both my red Sony camera and my zenphone (Android), and when I could not get them transferred to my desktop to crop and prepare them to share...I went to Best Buy on Sunday ready to buy a new camera.

But when I explained my problem to the salesman he suggested that what I needed was a device that would let me take out the small memory card from my camera and phone, and insert them into the right slot (out of 4) on this gizmo and thus be able to transfer my pictures.

[It is called a 4-slot Memory Card Reader.]

I took all evening yesterday to explore/make sure this Card Reader could actually help me transfer my photos to this desktop. That's when I discovered my snow photos, and decided they would make a great photo story to convince people that I'd see a lot of snow from my back-door through the whole garden!

I still feel sure that I had transferred those photos along with the models I'm preparing for the website. Then I had deleted everything on the memory cards so that there would be plenty of room for the next batch of photos.

Here, I thought this morning, is my first chance to show off the snow photos. But they are NOT on this desktop, nor on Tom's old computer on the next desk nor on my laptop behind me. (Yes, when you work with finicky computers you have to try over and over on different devices.)

All this to apologize; I don't have the snow pics to show you after all. I'm sorry!

There are some lazy snowflakes floating down this morning, but the 5-6 foot high snows beside my deck and the snow in the garden that was as high as my knees when I shoveled and walked down the path to my garage - all gone! I don't expect any more until next winter. Mind you, I'm not missing the snow. I'm looking forward to gardening again in a few weeks!

But I am resolving that henceforth, I will triple- quadruple CHECK my files were transferred before I delete them from the memory card! (Once deleted I cannot fish them out of the waste basket!)

I share this so you can learn from my Mistake!

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