It has been an interesting week, working on the new web-site. We've tweaked the menu, altered the tree, and gathered photos of art work. So far, so good. Mixed media, check. Oil pastels, check. Sketchbooks, also check. Watercolors, minimal check; only a small number of photos from close to seven years of painting. So, where were the photos?
Checked every single thumb-drive I could lay my hands on. No luck. I've got the photos in the album, so I KNOW the electronic record is Around Here Somewhere!! After searching for two days, I finally located the storage device with my watercolor photos -- a 3-1/2" floppy disc. Right after the Elation of having found the lost lambs came the Realization. What computer today takes 3-1/4" floppy discs? With a little help from my friends, I located a plug and play drive, with the obligatory USB port. E, Voila!
I still couldn't access the photos. Turns out, the program I used to store the photos was from Kodak, who no longer offers support. Looked some more, and found the original disc with the download for the program. I thought I was in business, finally, finally. That idea pooped out, too, after trying to load the disc on two different computers. It seems the program was 9 years old, and the supporting technology and programs have advanced so far that the original program simply had the "vapors" and refused to load.
So, having spent almost a week seeking a solution, I'm back to square one, where I simply scan the photos into the computer, save them on SEVERAL devices as j-pegs, and hope the technology gods allow me the luxury of posting a few on those errant photos on the web-site. Had I simply bowed to the Obvious Conclusion, I would have scanned them at the first sign of lost technology and saved myself a week. Oh, well. I do have 20/20 hindsight.
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