T.E. Watson
 
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Picture Rescue saved my new book! I was out in the Red Rock Valley of the Nevada desert researching material and facts for a new children's book I am rewriting, Got some great photos of the California and the Spanish trails. Got useable facts on Jim Beckwourth a mountain man that blazed many trails into California from Nevada and helped many pioneers find their way to their new settlements. Anyway… Photos and more photos almost four 512 cards worth of research photos were taken in one afternoon. The day was perfect and everything I needed I got. It was a great day! The vacation /work holiday was over and I was anxious to get back. I downloaded my shots into my laptop, being careful to make sure they were in a secure folder for safekeeping. I took more shots and more shots. Vegas is a photogenic place after all. But duty called and I had to get back to get these research photos burned to CD which was located 700 miles away in my office. Everything went well drive was smooth; car ran great, even found a decent radio station that stayed with us the entire way. All was well with the world until it was time to unpack. In trying to grab way too much stuff I dropped my camera on the cold concrete floor of my garage. Instantly I dropped everything else and snatched up the camera in hopes that I did not do major damage to it. I ran inside to download the newest shots and found that my card had become scrambled. That's just great! I thought. The best shots and now they are scrambled eggs. I thought not all is lost I still have my photos that are on the laptop. I thought I was safe into a download to my main machine until the laptop took a dive and I lost the laptop hard drive. My heart sank to my feet. After a day of wondering how I was going to save this work. I knew there was a magical way to recover this work but where was it. I finally remembered after a day of feeling absolutely crushed, that I had a program called data rescue by Pro Soft and set that to work. I was able to recover majority of photos on the drive and I even got my drive back. But the photos that were the most important were seemingly gone. Disappeared into the ether, never to be seen again. I really messed up. I suddenly remembered an article in my Mac User group newsletter about ProSofts newest program Picture Rescue. This has got to work I thought. I called them straight away and realizing it was fifteen to five at the end of what was sure to be their go home time, I got a real person! Wow! I was excited to hear a human on the other side I almost forgot why I had called. I immediately ordered Picture Rescue after a few questions on accuracy and reliability and paid for it on the spot. I was able to download the program and they emailed my serial number right then. It was so easy to use. I plugged it in and followed the simple directions and watched as this miracle recovery app bring back my photos. Some I had found had become corrupted because of my dropping my camera (never do that by the way, it is not good for the heart) I was able to choose which ones were still useable and which had become so bad from the drop very simply. It made my life easy to deal with again. Ask any one in my family. Writers are a temperamental lot. Picture Rescue has got my recommendation 10,000 %. Even if you don't think you need it or ever will. Believe it you will make your family much happier knowing that they can rely on ProSoft and Picture Rescue. T.E. Watson Children's Author (http://www.tewatsononline.com) |
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