Now that I’ve got my life somewhat in order, I’ve finally been able to put all my portraits of women from NRW together to work out where my double ups are, and to make sure I’ve kept a record of where each image of the same work comes from. I had kept out images I…
Author: Michaela de Bruce
Genuine progress
I found missing parts of my papers in amongst my research files! Such a relief because I was scrambling for months trying to rewrite my papers for different formats. I’ve taken my pearlwork off my frame* to put Elsa on there because I really need those extra stones on asap. It’s easy to put her…
Who benefits from my research?
It’s Not who I want to benefit, no, not even people on SocMed. A hint: One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual. I had made huge strides in productivity for two days but I still kept having difficulty moving files. What looked like the familiar…
I was right!
The usual blame is: You have too many files; You shouldn’t use large images on documents (also you should avoid long filenames, what?); You should use a third party program; You should use icons not thumbnails (even though the issue persists when you do.) So far so much gaslighting, I actually fell for it- well…
Journaling woes
So as per my posts about the effort to recover files, journaling for files includes all the information about where to find the file, the history of where it has been etc. But there is more information connected to files and folders than even that. I’ve had issues with files taking forever to show in…
Whaaat?
I thought my two original ssds had failed. Nope! Wow! So I’ve now got 5 ssds backed up including the dinky little one my OS is on. I was able to wipe the boot partition on the one I used for so much of my work which means I’ve finally managed to work my way…
A positive change
I’ve got memory and CPU issues sorted. Not a memory leak, just a lot of bloatware. A heck of a lot. This all did trigger fibro very badly yesterday, and I’m running on empty today, but I now have a really exciting opportunity, well multiple, which needs me to have my work safe, readily accessible….
I have Confidence in.. 4T?
Two days, two days, to check ssd/hdd model numbers against non commercial websites. SMS is a deal breaker but instead of being able to look at a model number and say “aha, this series uses SMS and the other CMS” no, now they’re interspersed. Oh no. Did I create a basic or dynamic disk… nope…
Rescued files
Oh thank goodness. The data that was lost was the directions to the files. A simple recovery tool found 800K of them, and I was able to recognise files I deleted deliberately and files that weren’t. So yoink, got them copied at least the images and documents, I’ll need to go through to find the…
I don’t know what to do
I’ve just lost thousands of files in trying to organise my saved files from my old sites. I have back ups, I do, but at what point do I just give up? It’s been 20 years of my work being destroyed- physical, digital, online, and reputational. It’s my time, it’s my health, and it’s my…