... but I'm not throwing in the towel!
This morning I woke up and ran downstairs to check the status of my download. I had downloaded a zip file from BackBlaze that should have had my pictures on it. I had selected just the primary iPhoto library from my hard drive. Once that downloaded I began to unzip the file. This morning the file was finally ready to be viewed... and there were my pictures! Now, I could not see the images in the "events" section of iPhoto, but when I opened each event and selected an individual photo I could view the photo. Yes, that could be problematic when trying to find a specific picture (so the boxes for each picture were there but no image), but I can live with that!
So I'm feeling pretty good all day long. Jackson is in bed so I was going to begin sorting through the pictures and adding them to the photo book I'm making online. Open the event for Jackson's birth... yeah, no. No pictures! Each photo comes up as an exclamation point inside of a triangle. Yikes!
I am assuming the zip file didn't download correctly from BackBlaze since it was over 1 GB (a little under 70 GB), so I am trying one more time a different way. Hopefully this works, for my sake and for the IT guy I've been pestering with this issue for the past 10 days!
I am not "holding my face" anymore (as Matt put it) and I am not stressing anymore. Now that I know that the file is on my online backup I feel hopeful that I will get the data one way or another. I am so ready to file them properly and create Jack's baby album. That way I will have a hard copy of the pictures and if something like this happens again I can just order another copy! Sigh.
But God is good. It seems silly, but any mother knows how precious baby pictures are. Irreplaceable. I love looking through old pictures so I know I will treasure these forever. I am so thankful my Dad talked me into backing up my computer on Backblaze. The $100 I spent on a 2 year backup doesn't seem so bad now that I've had to use it. I am thankful that my husband has a job that provides for our family, including a backup program for our computers and external hard drives for a more convenient backup. I am thankful for the internet so I can have pictures on facebook and Backblaze. I am thankful that God listened to my cry, even as minor as it seems in the eternal scheme of life. God is good.
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