Learn from my experience...

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So I learned a hard lesson yesterday.  I bought a new hard drive for my computer in an effort to free up some space on my regular drive.  I transferred thousands of raw photographs that I took onto the new hard drive...and had planned to burn them all onto DVD this weekend.

The bad news is that the new hard drive crashed big time, & despite my boyfriend's best efforts to recover the images, they, like Abraham Lincoln, are given to the ages.

So, learn from my mistake...back up the files BEFORE transferring them.  I could kick myself & now I have to deal with the loss of years of photography.