Chessysailor wrote:
I have committed the ultimate photographer’s sin. I was in a hurry and ignored my own rules on backups and lost a bunch of pictures. My wife and I took a very nice trip where I took about 700 snaps all in jpeg. I loaded the pictures onto my external drive. At this point, everything looked good. I also loaded them onto Photoshop Elements. I was busy with a lot of other things at the time, so I’m not sure what happened but the next time I looked at my photos the file type had changed from jpg to tmp. I don’t think there is a way to correct this problem but I’ll offer this problem to “experts”. I’m sure everyone is thinking “what about your backup”. The short story is that I didn’t make one. No excuses, too rushed, etc. Lesson learned.
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