Today I've been transferring my photo library from the "My Documents" folder that was on the PC drive into iPhoto. Well it didn't turn out great because that folder was no where to be found. I think I might have already it with the same folder from my laptop. The hoops I had to jump through were incredible. This drive was formatted for Time Machine backup.
Using Data Rescue II I did a bit scan of the drive. I'm looking for jpegs so any of its kind would be found. I was able to recover almost everything. But now the files don't have any real file names. except a short desciption of size and a serial number. Now I'm using Aperture to build out a quick library. Using the embedded EXIF information I sorted the images into folders by year and date. Since I know the approximate times we had family vacations, festivals, visitors, and parties, I'm able to quickly stitch together a working pattern.
Now all I have to do is explain to my wife how I almost lost over 3000 photos.
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