Appeal for stolen phone

Cee-Jay-Cee

I just read the following story in the Indo and while my heart goes out to any parent that loses a child, I cant help but wonder why in the space of 15 months, the mother didn't download or print out the precious pictures of her daughter.

My wife is the same, hoarding pictures on her phone and I'm constantly on at her to download them on to the desk top and make a back up copy on our external data bank/HD in case she lost the phone.

I sincerely hope the mother gets her phone back and retrieves the photos AND makes a backup of them or has them printed.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/devastated-mum-appeals-for-return-of-stolen-phone-which-holds-priceless-memories-of-tragic-daughter-34456903.html

everlast75

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

I just read the following story in the Indo and while my heart goes out to any parent that loses a child, I cant help but wonder why in the space of 15 months, the mother didn't download or print out the precious pictures of her daughter.

My wife is the same, hoarding pictures on her phone and I'm constantly on at her to download them on to the desk top and make a back up copy on our external data bank/HD in case she lost the phone.

I sincerely hope the mother gets her phone back and retrieves the photos AND makes a backup of them or has them printed.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/devastated-mum-appeals-for-return-of-stolen-phone-which-holds-priceless-memories-of-tragic-daughter-34456903.html

the mother was probably too busy, what with all the trips in and out of hospital with the young girl, caring for her before and after her operations... you know.. nothing important

biko

Goes to show how important it is to have a cloud or similar set up so pics, contacts, tests etc are backed up regularly.

Hope she gets her phone back of course.

smash

Am I missing something or does the article not even mention the make or model of phone?

Surely she would have maybe sent to photos to someone? Or they'd have backed up somewhere... iCloud? Picasso? Even Facebook...

maudgonner

smash wrote: »

Am I missing something or does the article not even mention the make or model of phone?

Surely she would have maybe sent to photos to someone? Or they'd have backed up somewhere... iCloud? Picasso? Even Facebook...

It mentions a black Galaxy Note?

smash

maudgonner wrote: »

It mentions a black Galaxy Note?

Not on mobile. Unless I'm blind...

Edit: just saw it. I guess I'm blind.

PARlance

smash wrote: »

Not on mobile. Unless I'm blind...

Edit: just saw it. I guess I'm blind.

You're blind. It's there, a couple of paragraphs under "continue reading".

maudgonner

Years ago I worked for a company that made flash drives. The amount of calls we would get in from people who wanted help in retrieving their documents was unbelievable - drive was put through the wash (they normally survived this actually), crushed under car wheels, eaten by the dog etc etc. The documents were valuable to them - on at least five occasions we were called about someone's thesis that they had no other copies of.

Aside from the fact that USB drives can get damaged or corrupted, it never seemed to occur to them how easy it is to lose them. Constantly amazed us how blasé people were about their files until something went wrong.

Really hope this woman gets her photos back though, it would be heartbreaking to lose those memories.

Graces7

If you open a free yahoo mail account you can store any amount of files and photos free and they ar safe even if the computer dies..

Junkyard Tom

For goodness sake back your stuff on a storage device, or automatically to the cloud, and if you know people who don't do it offer to show them how to. I've heard too many stories about people who are heartbroken about losing pics after having a phone lost, stolen, or destroyed.

gandalf

With an Android phone it's easy. You can set it to automatically back up photos seamlessly. Once you connect to a Wi-Fi connection your photos are pushed up to your Google account.

AnonoBoy

Graces7 wrote: »

If you open a free yahoo mail account you can store any amount of files and photos free and they ar safe even if the computer dies..

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smash

gandalf wrote: »

With an Android phone it's easy. You can set it to automatically back up photos seamlessly. Once you connect to a Wi-Fi connection your photos are pushed up to your Google account.

There's a good possibility the owner had this turned on and didn't know.