I just found a couple old USB HDDs, one of which I used for all of high school (and later) the other was more ~2013-2018.
High school (USB 2) one is empty, running Recuva now to see if I can recover any old clips or photos.
The other one had been mostly loaded up w/ TV shows to plug into our TV a few years back (Arrow season 4, Supergirl Season 3, some Dragon Ball Super) BUT it also had a big vault of my PS4 clips and screenshots I dumped in 2017! WILD.
Wellp. Despite Recuva saying most of these were OK to recover, only a tiny handful actually work. Attempts at using Stellar Video Repair have not been successful, even on the AVI files.
Unfortunately, recovering my pre-2015 videos seems impossible, but I have found some of the stuff that I lost when trying to backup to Amazon Cloud drive!
Including a rare look at me still using Vegas, and Halo 5 launch gameplay!
IT FINALLY HAPPENED!
I found some older HDDs that actually had older videos on them! 2010-2015ish! Pre-2010 is mostly impossible to find/recover, but this is still awesome!
I never really got much use out of Magic Lantern, but I think it provided more benefits later on than when I used it. I know for some cams it unlocks crazy capabilities, but for T3i seemed like just small stuff. I used it for a timelapse at one point.
You were such a dork in the most wonderful way. That baby face with such gravitas, hehe. It’s very cool to look back at your really old stuff and see how massively far you’ve come to be one of my go to guys for information and technical education. I wish I had been paying attention to the wealth of stuff that was out there on YouTube back in the early days. I might have joined in and had a very different career trajectory. I guess I was just too busy working crazy hours in a budding IT career and being a dad of 2 young kids.
Man. Looking back at some of the drives I have. I literally have stuff that’s over 30 years old that’s just been carried from one disc to the next. Some stuff I literally remember being on floppies. Alot of really old tools, and an entire website with hacking tools from one of my former coworkers that used to be a high end white hat, before he gave it up to become a restaurateur. I can’t even connect that folder to anything these days without multiple security programs freaking out and quarantining it immediately.
My phone has files/pictures on it that literally go back to my first smart phone, a Motorola Krzr K1 i won at TechEd, that took a 512M microSD. I copied that thing to successively larger microSDs up to by last one, a 256G on my Galaxy S10, that I still have for backup storage. Has pictures and .apks for side loading from back when I spent alot of time on XDA-Developers rooting my phones and putting images on them because they still weren’t powerful enough to get past the bloat, and because Damn The Man!.
