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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

I'm Back to Wish You a Merry Christmas

Welcome to Rhonda who became my 51st follower.

After a long break from blogging I'm happy to pop in and say "hello" and "Merry Christmas" to my readers. I did not plan on being away so long and meant to post some blogs while I was on holiday in Kenya. However, I had limited time for blogging as most of you will understand. Then when I did have time to blog, the power did not cooperate.

I've been home for a week now. I had hoped to log on and blog a bit sooner but despite taking two cameras and three memory cards with me on holiday, I had no access to photos! After several false starts to recover the photos, I did at last find a reasonable digital photo recovery program and have recovered at least half of my photos. I lost a second memory card,and so those images will forever be lost to me.

If any of you ever find yourself in a similar situation, I can recommend the reasonably priced "Digital Photo Recovery (DPR)" software. It allows you to download a demo program before you purchase and enables you to preview how many of your photos are recoverable. Also the recovery program doesn't modify or overwrite your original data. I tried several free programs (File Scavenger, Recuver and some others), including those with demo capabilities before purchasing DRP software. None of the other programs recovered anywhere near the photos I had taken. Even the DPR program did not recover many of my photos but enough were saved to make me feel that some of my holiday memories were captured. Now enough about photo recovery.

The main purpose of this post was to say "I'm back" and "I missed blogging - a little". But mostly I wanted to send you the very warmest wishes of the Christmas season.