Gone, gone, gone!
I lost my photo gallery. I have backups but not good enough backups that I can get everything back up and online easily. It started with a corrupt table in Gallery2′s database and got worse as I tried to fix things. Anyway, the database is gone but the pictures are in several other places offline. Rebuilding the gallery will take some time. Time I don’t really have.
This has me giving some thought about a lot of things that I have online and what I need to do to ensure that things like this don’t happen again. One option is to quit worrying about the stuff I have online. To be honest, that is looking like the preferred option at this point.
— Update:
I’ve got the gallery back online and a few pictures loaded into it. I doubt I just throw everthing back into the gallery. I think its time that I get a little more discerning over which photos I publish and which I just keep around on my own hard drive.
About Larry D. Burton
I'm a 55 year old controls engineer who just likes tinkering with stuff.
Finished high school at a local institute of learning. Decided it wasn't a good time to be a healthy, physically fit 18 year old with no college experience. Entered college and started working toward a degree in animal husbandry.
1975-1976
Discoverd that I was not going to be a very good husband of animals so I left school to figure out what I might be good at. A local beverage company took pity on me and paid me to go from place to place making sure their on tap beverages were maintaining their high quality.
1976-1979
Got out of quality control and into vending. Learned about control systems and refrigeration also learned that vending machines are heavy and vending doesn't pay all that well.
In 1977 I found myself married
1979-1981
Dedicated myself to installing and maintaining commercial refrigeration equipment. Found myself on the roof of a local grocery store one night in the middle of an ice storm replacing a compressor and figured it was time to get back into school.
1981-1986
Got my but back into school at night and changed jobs to keep the mechanical and electrical systems of a local coporate hospital in working order. The job expanded to unstopping drains and burning lab samples and amputated body parts.
1986-now
Finished school and took on a job designing, installing and maintaining industrial control systems. Along the way I picked up a bunch of computer skills that became very useful connecting various industrial controllers to one another and moving the data into coporate databases. I now operate Dallas Bay Technologies, a one man shop specializing in technology solutions for industrial problems.
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That is depressing. Glad you got the gallery working again, but sorry about the loss of pictures.
I have gotten all fouled up on my gallery, can’t get it upgraded. Some ID10T error, I am sure. I am inspired to go back and fiddle with it.
You know, I think you are right about not throwing just anything into Gallery. I save too many pictures since I got my new digital camera. Losing data can make you more disciplined about what you save where.
Felix, I still have my pictures, just not online in my gallery. I’m bemoaning the fact that to put things back they way they were I’ll have to recreate each album and load the pictures back into it.