I am now a mother and my photographs if weren’t important before, are now more than ever.

They are PRECIOUS to me.

Only the other day, my memory card just froze and ‘erased’ all my photos and short videos. I am really vexed and close to shedding tears daily as most of the photos are of BABY.

Image from: techtheman.com

I tend to take pictures of him on a daily basis and when he does something new, I take a video using the same camera. Got to love digital cameras…! Now, I am trying to recover said files from my memory card and it is a drawn out process. The fact that I will be losing videos of DS attempting to sit down or roll over is too much for me to bear. I won’t stop until there is not other solution or way to get them out of the card.

I am to blame anyways as I kept swapping the card between cameras and everything I uploaded the pictures on my computer, I never erased them from the memory card and/or formatted the card. As a result ‘MEMORY CARD ERROR’ everytime I switch on my camera to take a picture or video clip.

Well, lesson learnt. FORMATTING top of my list as well as BACKUPS.

I found a few articles online highlighting the importance of formatting your memory, which I though I share with you, esp. the parents who are taking precious photographs of their little ones. Just like a wedding, some things can never be repeated to be captured on film.

http://bit.ly/jkrolw

http://bit.ly/i0HmD5

Please prevent this from happening to you.