well I must have know at the time... but it's been so long I've forgotten! and now my log in doesn't work.

just too hard.

ah. got it.
it's been a long day (final day of school hols, kids driving me crazy)
have still got 2 shoots to edit tonight.
might have to turn the coffee machine back on.

Most of the time those unrecognized drives are the controller card, not the drive. You can pull the drive and put it into an external caddy, dock, bay (whatever someone calls it) read everything. Worth the try and then you can use the docking station for an external drive as a backup, so no loss. 1T drives are under $100.

Sorry but still save your own on a drive is much less expensive than paying for storage on the web. Thing time and speed also.

This one reads IDE and SATA, if you'll never see another IDE in your lifetime, they make a dual SATA that does copies, drive to drive. There's your backup! Around fifty bucks, just buy a new drive every year and keep using the old ones until they go up in smoke. Copies laptop drives, hard drives, backs up drives...

Inexpensive redundant backup.

http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Drive-Docking-Station-2-5in/dp/B002UAR8JY/ref=sr_1_11?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1365899321&sr=1-11&keywords=external+hard+drive+bay+star+tech

Quote from: gillian on April 13, 2013, 16:58

I've been looking into crashplan, $70 for the year, unlimited storage. I've got a hard drive from 2011 that powers up but can't be recognised, it'll no doubt cost more than that just to have some tech person recover it.

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No doubt USA plans are cheaper, cos we get "the lucky country" premium added to all our costs and services.
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I'm sorry, I'm not sure I understood much of that.

but a 1T hard drive is @$100, and i'd need one per year, so $70 for back up that (knock on wood) will never fail is a good deal.

ditto. but you end up with lots of batches of pics, as some go through and others get flagged, then you just resubmit them again. i always try to include both lots of spelling in my KWs.

Quote from: gillian on April 13, 2013, 17:10

...the "you spelt "colour" wrong" type messages)

Seriously?
Sh*t. 

yep, and I still make a *sigh eye rolling* comment. if you use their KW generator some of those words get flagged too. On the plus side, the number of times they fix a spelling mistake.... it all evens out so can't complain too loudly.

I've been looking into crashplan, $70 for the year, unlimited storage. I've got a hard drive from 2011 that powers up but can't be recognised, it'll no doubt cost more than that just to have some tech person recover it.

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No doubt USA plans are cheaper, cos we get "the lucky country" premium added to all our costs and services.
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Then from the agency point of view, all their statistics are automated so if you have 200 images that are getting no views or purchases these are lowering your rating on that agencies site and making it very difficult to move up.

it would be good to know if this is actually true, on any site. you can't possibly know how the search/rating algorithms are written, have you read this info somewhere on the agenices' site?

but then they realised they'd have to take on Google? 

egads! cheap and nasty quality chinese goods are changing the way we all behave and contributing to such hideous global waste.

a touch over long, and I gave up at the laundry comment.... but I get the general idea: very cool in Bloke World. I don't feel the need to spend time hooking up a psx controller to my iMac just to sort photos. Suspect my boy 'tog friends would disagree but I don't really care what beer drinkers think.   

But to offer a Female/Wife Response/Public Service Announcement: laundry has many steps: sorting clothes, sorting and putting on loads of washing (+applying pre-wash treatments to disgusting man clothes), hanging washing out, bringing it in, sorting and folding (even ironing), and finally, putting it away. There's a whole room devoted to doing the laundry, as opposed to gaming, so I suggest - in the interest of your future relationships - you give it more respect. 

I'm afraid I'd suggest losing the whole thing, cos it makes me laugh, and I'm not a 15 year old boy... but still! the "!" is also not used widely, except by teenage girls and rubbish marketing types who think red and yellow are still great colours.

I would also say the capital "p" in "Photos" is making me cringe. Why the random capital? Lots of people do that, and it's just wrong. I'd rather see no capitals at all - much friendlier.

"sell and buy photos from all the world" should probably be " ... from all over the world" and that full stop ("period" for US/canadian types) is just ugly there.

the "enjoy selling them with gratification" is getting more and more lewd as I read it, lol. (esp if you read the "you do nothing, we do everything" .... um, can you come visit me sometime?  )  so yeah, just scrap it. you don't need that line at all on your english page.

i never look at SS forums, they are a bit too clunky/chunky/ugly.

MM is full of horney guys with DSLRs who call themselves photographers. be cautious. bring escorts

I would agree with that, and am quite surprised that - despite the cliche - young girls still fall for it. I actually use my "40 something mum" credentials with pride on MM.   Having said that, the few times I've used it the models have been either too young (one turned up with braces on her teeth!) or just flaky. I'm not into fashion so much, nor tattoos or zombie "art"....