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C200 Unbelievable. I did this great blog entry earlier this morning and now my computer has eaten the damn file. I know I saved the sucker—I saved it twice on media an on the hard drive. I have had this happen to me before. It’s no where and on top of that my digital camera is no-longer saving images. It’s a machine conspiracy aimed at me. What I have learned over the years of working with computer and other electronic data saving devices it best to know when to let go. I bet I have spent literally days trying to recover data. In the old days I was pretty good with my Norton Utilities I could always find the whole file if not bit’s and pieces of the document round the hard drive, enough so I could piece the document together. Nowadays, however, I am not familiar enough with the newer OS’s to even run a bootlegged data recovery software. So, what I have learned is to just write the damn thing over if it cannot be found or recovered with in a half hour’s time—and that’s what I am doing now. I’ll have to finish when I get home but this is a restart.

<>So as I was saying, the media will not register images. I know the media is good because I can save data onto the media(64 MB Compact Disk) but for some reason the camera no longer will write. I really do need to upgrade my camera anyway and I could go out this evening and get a camera 3.1 MB or so and not be too stung, financially. But, the fact of the matter, mis I really like my little HP C200 1 MB photosmart. Cost me about $300.00 four or five years ago and I have really enjoyed the device. I have adapted my gnarled disabled hands to work the camera adequately, the new one are so small I don’t know if I could operate them. I suppose I can learn and I will le1arn over time but, I just don’t look forward to having to do so. Actually, there are three or four such cameras on ebay right now for about $10.00. I bet I could get at least one of them but that is so much work and the C200 is old technology.

I came home and traded memory cards and sure enough the camera worked just fine. What is weird is the card I changed is one that would not work a month ago, this card acted just like the one I changed go figure. I wish I was smarter. So at the end of the day all is good. I spoke with Justin at Mobility Solutions and he is going to look at my wheelchair lift and see what he can do to keep it going more to come...