Friday night I had the girls over. I made meatball subs with my crock pot (they were just ok I think) and we were all setting out to accomplish various projects. I was going to work on my save the date cards... printing out the addresses, and the additional brunch cards, etc. Before I got started, they wanted me to put the flower photos on my computer to look at them. When I went to do that, I opened my iPhoto library and it was EMPTY!!!!! I was freaking out thinking that my photos were all gone!!!! Luckily they are still there, but the XML file that tells iphoto how to find the photos and how they are organized - that file got corrupted. So I will have to import all my photos again and re-organize them. It could have been worse but EEEK. My external hard drive was the cause of this... it has been acting funky for a couple of weeks and causing my iPhoto to freeze a lot. So right now I am not even plugging in the external hard drive because I don't want this to happen to my OTHER iPhoto library where I keep my scrapping supplies. That one would be a BITCH to re-organize!!!!!
I did a LOT of research about external hard drives because Ian's also did this to him a while back so I am done with Western Digital. We think the reason is the type of USB connector, with the small end that's actually on the hard drive being the problem. It just doesn't hold up well to someone using it ALL the time. I am ordering one that will allow me to use FireWire 800 (which should be super fast AND more secure of a connection.) Here's what I'm getting:
(I got it for $100 less on NewEgg.com)
This drive has gotten unbelieveable reviews. All the other hard drives I looked at were hit or miss with half of the people saying they had no problems, and the other half of people saying they had problems just like mine. This is the only drive where no one complained of it failing after a few months. One guy even said he carried it around the WORLD in his backpack WITHOUT A CASE and it still worked perfectly. That's why they call it RUGGED! :)
I don't really dig the bright orange (it's even brighter in person), but luckily you can buy other color rubber sleeves to put on it. I tried to get one at the Apple store last night but they only have the 250gb, and they even called all the local stores for me to check. Oh well... it's ok but now I have to wait a few more days before I can DO anything about this! I was on such a roll with my scrapbooking, and now I am just sitting here not able to do any. Can't work much on my business stuff either, because I need my digital kits to work with to do screenshots and stuff for my lesson plans. GRRRRRR! I can't wait to get the new drive, get things transferred, do what I need to do to be up and running and organized again, and get back to work!!
At least I did manage to get some more scrapbook pages done before this happened. Here are the newer ones that I haven't posted yet:
I am really happy with these pages! Yay! And I miss my scrapping. I hope I'm up and running soon.
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