I Fail with Computers
This post is not about a view or anything, but I feel I ought to say it anyway.
While working with the footage recorded on Saturday, I realised that I was running seriously low on Memory (under 1GB), so I decided that I ought to do a clean up.
When I meantioned this to others they told me that I should get rid of footage once I had put it up on Youtube. I was going to use the footage again, but they had a point.
I came to the conclusion that I should delete my videos that I had already put up on Youtube and keep the raw footage that was recorded.
At this point, I should mention that my computer has a weird way of saving the footage and vids that doesn’t make sense. I also had not backed-up my files because they were too big, I had nowhere to do it, and I, honestly, forgot (so I’ve only got myself to blame).
I selected what I thought to be the vids, and sent them to the recycling bin. When I emptied the bin, 49 files wouldn’t delete (a good thing in retrospect, I guess), leaving the 21 that did to be sent to their fate.
When the files wouldn’t delete, I checked my free memory and saw that it had shot up to 6GB, so I ignored them and returned to the footage I was still processing… and that’s where I realised that I had made an error.
It had not taken me long to learn that what I was certain was my videos was actually my footage, so I returned what was left in the bin to its folder and started to panic.
I have now quaranteed my computer and are using two separate, free restoration software packages in an attempt to get back what was lost.
Worst case scenario is: I’ve lost all the footage and will not be able to finish putting the vids recorded onto youtube.
And just so that you know, I have saved stuff as well during this incident so I know that some of it has been lost for good. I just hope that I can get what is left, which should be a lot.