: I saved a couple of jpegs of your test skin back in March - are these
: among the ones you've lost ? I can mail them back if so.

: I'm presuming that these were digital pics, as with film you always have
: the originals to scan again. The nature of electronic storage always makes
: me even more paranoid about digital pics than I used to be about scanned
: film. I now copy photos to four different hard discs on four different
: machines in two different buildings *before* deleting them from the camera.
: Then as soon as I have 500 M or so of photos that I haven't previously cut
: to CD, I build an iso image, cut a CD-RW to check that everything is OK,
: then cut two CD-R, both to be stored in buildings different from where my
: computers are. This is to avoid common-mode failures (eg. where all the
: backup copies are in the same building that burns down).

: It's not fool proof, but so far it has stood me in adequate stead through
: hard disc failures and accidentally overwriting an original with an edited
: version of a photo...

: Andy
Thanks Andy, that would be great! I'm really down on myself for doing absolutly nothing to preserve my collection.