Jacqui
01-20-2006, 11:08 PM
Around Christmas, in anticipation of some relatives staying with us for a few days, I burned all of 'Jacqui's' pictures from my hard drive to a cd along with 70 pages of a "fictionmania-type" story that I had been writing over a period of several months. I checked the cd after burning to make sure that the files transferred and then deleted them from my hard drive. I put the cd in a cd-box and put it in an inconspicuous location.
The next day, I put in a blank cd and made a slide show with music of a recent vacation to give to my wife as a Christmas present. She loved it!
One week after Christmas, guests all gone, I wanted to put everything back on my hard-drive. I got the un-labeled "Jacqui" cd, put it in, and to my horror, there was absolutely nothing on the disc! All the pics and 70 pages of a story still in progress vanished!
OK, now I'm slightly devastated! Although the pictures were "the best of..," they weren't all that good and could be replaced with better pictures with the advice I get on this forum. But the story was another story! There were parts of it that I read and re-read and thought that were quite good. I would never be able to re-write the dialogue in the chapter in which "Jack had become Jacqui and dreamt that she had a lesbianic experience with ex-college friend Kim at 2:30am in the morning on the beach in LaJolla California!"
So for 3 weeks, I have been a little depressed, feeling that a part of me was lost forever.
Luckily, I had a thought (well, a good one!) and "google" came to the rescue. I searched for "CD Recovery" and found several free demo programs that I downloaded. I inserted each of 3 cd's (what I thought was the 'Jacqui' cd, the blank cd, and the slideshow.) Amazingly, on the slideshow cd, I saw the 'hidden' files of the pics and the story. I must have forgotten to "Close the Session" and then burned the slide show right over it.
None of the demos allowed for recovery, so I picked the cheapest one, paid for it on-line, got my 'key-code' and voila!..... It was nice to see the pics of 'Jacqui' again!
I don't know if the story will ever be finished, but it is a part of me and I'm glad I got it back.
To all those who have had problems with their spouses since the last time I posted, I realize the relative insignificance of my feelings during the last 4 weeks, and I wish you all the best in attaining positive outcomes.
Jacqui
The next day, I put in a blank cd and made a slide show with music of a recent vacation to give to my wife as a Christmas present. She loved it!
One week after Christmas, guests all gone, I wanted to put everything back on my hard-drive. I got the un-labeled "Jacqui" cd, put it in, and to my horror, there was absolutely nothing on the disc! All the pics and 70 pages of a story still in progress vanished!
OK, now I'm slightly devastated! Although the pictures were "the best of..," they weren't all that good and could be replaced with better pictures with the advice I get on this forum. But the story was another story! There were parts of it that I read and re-read and thought that were quite good. I would never be able to re-write the dialogue in the chapter in which "Jack had become Jacqui and dreamt that she had a lesbianic experience with ex-college friend Kim at 2:30am in the morning on the beach in LaJolla California!"
So for 3 weeks, I have been a little depressed, feeling that a part of me was lost forever.
Luckily, I had a thought (well, a good one!) and "google" came to the rescue. I searched for "CD Recovery" and found several free demo programs that I downloaded. I inserted each of 3 cd's (what I thought was the 'Jacqui' cd, the blank cd, and the slideshow.) Amazingly, on the slideshow cd, I saw the 'hidden' files of the pics and the story. I must have forgotten to "Close the Session" and then burned the slide show right over it.
None of the demos allowed for recovery, so I picked the cheapest one, paid for it on-line, got my 'key-code' and voila!..... It was nice to see the pics of 'Jacqui' again!
I don't know if the story will ever be finished, but it is a part of me and I'm glad I got it back.
To all those who have had problems with their spouses since the last time I posted, I realize the relative insignificance of my feelings during the last 4 weeks, and I wish you all the best in attaining positive outcomes.
Jacqui