Google Picassa Warning

[astral]

I spent several hours editing a set of photos and then imported them into Picassa, on my machine.

I then realised I had left out the stop of re-sizing so I asked Picassa to delete the album.

It did just that, a FULL DELETE.

Not a trace could be found by my file recovery programme.

I had to start all over again.

You have been warned!!

[Tywais]

Not sure if you have tried this photo recovery program but some Picassa users found it worked where others such as recuva wouldn't.

TestDisk & PhotoRec - Free software downloads and software reviews - CNET Download.com

[siamect]

For the future...

How about a distributed version control system? Git for example?

Martin

[nikster]

For the future...

How about a distributed version control system? Git for example?

Martin

Simple backup would do... good to know to not trust Picasa though. I had 2 copies of all my photos for years because I didn't trust iPhoto. iPhoto, for all its failures, never deleted anything though, so now I trust it, and I make backups.

[siamect]

For the future...

How about a distributed version control system? Git for example?

Martin

Simple backup would do... good to know to not trust Picasa though. I had 2 copies of all my photos for years because I didn't trust iPhoto. iPhoto, for all its failures, never deleted anything though, so now I trust it, and I make backups.

No a simple backup would not do it... You sit there and work and then you loose your changes...

The changes have been on the disk for less than 24 hours... probably you take backup scheduled every day... well You... are a "fruit person" so you probably have the Apple TimeMachine/Capsule and it is taking backup every hour by default. That is much better than a normal daily, weekly, monthly backup. Still you can loose up to one hour work.

If you discover that you have lost it soon after it happened then it is ok but if you discover it later, there is a risk that it has been overwritten by the backups of the following hour, day or week... If if it is going to survive forever it needs to be alive for a month because you save the monthly backups forever...

If you have a DCVS then you add and commit the changes when you want to, that may be anytime, before you go to the toilet, after you have done anything of value and the changes stay there forever... and you push them to a remote place in a few clix...

Distributed version control systems are really worth while... not only for programmers...

Martin