Tuesday, October 9, 2018

I still haven’t resolved my computer issue – my backups to my external drive aren’t working but one of the partitions on it contains some photos from several years ago. There was no way I could get them from the external drive back onto my computer but they were old and I thought I could probably live without them.

But just before I went to bed last night I found a couple of files from an older photo program. I did some research and found a way to load them into my current photo application. I went to bed while that process was still running.

When I checked on it this morning the photos appeared in my photo library, but none of my current photos showed up. I headed off the quilting thinking that I had destroyed all my newer photos (from about 2009 onward), including all of the Guild bee photos. But through the day I talked myself into being okay with losing them. I have a physical project book that I keep my quilting photos in, I often post other photos to my website and I don’t really have a need to do anything with all of the Guild photos I’ve collected. By the time I came home I was quite pleased with the notion that there wouldn’t be any work to do sorting through all my digital photos – the bins of “real” photos are more than I can handle!

But after I got home I had another idea – and it worked. When the old photos were imported they created their own library and the newer photos that I thought I lost were still their in the original library. I am so lucky – or am I? Now I’ll have to deal with all of the recovered photos as well as trying to keep up to date with the current ones.

But I did go sewing today and I got a couple of blocks done. The monthly Guild block will be due shortly after I get back from my trip so I was glad to get it done today. And I got the extra orange block (based on the Hands Across the Water block) done as well; I guess I’ll call it my Hands project from now on.