ARGH!!

Big thanks to Alan, Bro, Karla, Cam and various mates who helped me to shoot a video yesterday.

Sad to say that I killed half the footage.

Yep, once again we recorded on the phone camera (hey I blew all my money on props at Propco) and I deleted the files from the phone before double triple checking that the transfer to the PC had worked properly. Just cos it didnt report an error during the cut and paste doesn't mean it worked, so I merrily thought, sweet it's done and deleted the files to make space.

(sigh)

So that's my fault, however, I have a few gripes:

- transferring large files from the iphone to the PC sucks and doesn't work under native Xp (yeah I'm old school)  so you have to use a 3rd party product as a file browser.-

-The fact that these massive tech behemoths cant work out their @^&# in order to make things easier for the end user makes me GRR.

- This 'Walled garden' @^&# makes me GRR, thats why it's hard, cos they choose NOT to play nice to try, and lock in customers, yeah yah tell me its just opposing tehcnical visions and I still call bull@*#*

- Yes its a phone, whaddya expect, but it's a clunky crappy way to have to deal with videos longer than 1 minute of continuous footage, so if you're at an event and wind up with 10 minutes of something and 8 gig if footage, rots of ruck.

Good procedure removes problems - double check that your files are secure. I am lucky that I took the morning's footage off to another machine so I have only lost the two sscenes after lunch. Only. ARGH.

BY THE WAY avoid these scam 'recover your files' programs, in my case, they couldn't have recovered them and if I had shelled out the $70 I'd be doubly unhappy. Mostly what they do is so low level that with a little googling you could sort it, if it was sort-able.

The last way for me to recover my footage is to Jailbreak, SSH in, create an image of the disk, move it to another machine and then scan it for video files without the headers.

Which is fine except my home PC is a little locked down and doesn't like to talk to strangers.

Rod for my own back, yes? Yes. Remember, what would Jesus do? Jesus doesn't lose his files cos Jesus Saves.

So, Apple Vs PC ARGH Files transfer and Double Check.

ARGH!!!!

POOP!