Sometimes, the unthinkable happens.
Your computer crashes.
Your computer gets stolen.
You have a house fire.
You move and lose your USB.
So many different scenarios can lead to one very sad occurrence: all of your wedding photos are gone.
Today I wanted to share this post with you because this recently happened to ME. A freak accident led me to (almost) lose ALL OF MY LIFE’S WORK.
This means that if YOU, my client, had one of these aforementioned bad things happen to you, I also would not have been able to help you. I try to keep my clients’ photos for 1 year, but sometimes even bad things happen to ME.
Help me and help yourself by doing these things:
- Backup your photos! Have your photos/videos on MULTIPLE USB drives, external hard drives, or cloud based drives.
- PRINT your photos!
DO NOT WAIT until something bad happens to back up your photos!!
What if I LOST ALL OF MY PHOTOS?
After someone local told me there was nothing they could do, I sent my external hard drive to Secure Data Recovery. They have a very high success rate (96%) and offer payment plans. The company was VERY professional, helpful, and FAST! The big down side to waiting until something bad happens to care about backing up your photos is the COST. Recovering my data literally cost me an arm and a leg ($2,450 total 🙁 ).
Please please please. I CANNOT REITERATE ENOUGH. BACK UP YOUR PHOTOS!
End rant 😉
xoxo,
La Rae