Well, I hate to put this out there, but maybe I can get some back. In the last few years I had to computers break down. In the process I lost a lot of info.

What hurts is that I actually don't know everything I've lost. I know it's a big thing to ask, but if any sellers of ebooks have kept files on buyers of their stuff, and if I was one of them, could you send me a note just so I at least know what I'm missing.

Thanks. I'll also put this in Inner Thoughts. It's very frustrating.

Greg

Greg, have you tried some of the recovery software that's out there? I've had tremendous luck with .pdf file when it comes to recovery. Some good and free recovery software are, Recuva https://www.ccleaner.com/recuva and Free Undelete https://www.lifewire.com/freeundelete-review-2622880 Both softwares I believe, come with portable options.

I hope that helps Greg, as you contribute so much to the community it would be nice to know that these tips helped? Thank you for all you do.

You can always re-download from Penguin and Lybrary.com after you log in

Thanks for the leads, but I'm afraid most of the stuff was lost via completely dead hard drives of long ago. I no longer even have those. I do have all my links to Penguin and Lybrary and others like that... but what I lost were the ebooks I bought from specific people over the years.

What's frustrating is I can't even tell what's missing because I had so many of them. What will happen is I will occasionally get an idea and remember it was based on something I read in an ebook. I then try to search and find that's one of the ebooks that are missing.

I'm going to just have to live with it.

Greg

If you bought the PDFs from individual people chances are you got them via email, right? So you could just filter your inbox for all PDFs..

Dan, I've tried that, but I also lost a lot of mail info when two computers went down many years ago. I've found about a dozen or so looking through old emails, but I know there are a few hundred or so that are missing. I've had stuff from over 15 get... well, lost.

Greg

PROBLEM FIXED!!!! A friend helped me go into an old drive I had and I was able to find about 90% of the stuff I had.. Man, I'm jumping up and down. I can't believe this problem was able to be fixed.

Thanks to everyone that put in some ideas and to those that wrote to me via PM to see if they could help. Thank you all.

Greg

Are you lucky!
Had that issue once & was not as lucky as you.
Now I use carbonite to automatically back my files up.

Great news Greg.

Charlie

Remember that the problem is NOT fixed as long as you have not established regular backups.

I'm glad that even after you seemed to have given up, you were able to recover much of what was lost That was what I hoped would happen with my suggestions.

Thanks guys. Yep, it's time to back up the back ups.

Greg

With so many of us having had the same problem, I wanted to post this software which just came to my attention and is only available for ONE day. https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/air-live-drive-1-1-3/ I think it could help us all, in saving our content quickly and easily in the cloud but just like an external drive.

Use something like Dropbox and put all your PDFs in the cloud where you'll never lose them. You may have to pay extra to get enough space, but at least you'll never lose anything again.

The software I posted works with dropbox and other cloud companies. Did you check it out?

Haven't done it yet. So far I've made copies onto two different hard drives.


Greg

2 drives + DVD is what I have had to resort to Greg, after loosing a 10 year collection including some rare seance stuff. If possible keep the DVDs off site for restoration in case of fire.In business some years back I lost some $100,000 in a fire that destroyed all my digitized licensed Images and my library of company digitized one of a kind art...and at that time had NO back-ups and a fight I did not win with insurance company. I was still naive about off site. then -- much. much colder and a. little wiser now.

I just went through a DVD Crash while making some originals that at my 7 year old super-drive. I was able to replace it with an external burner for $40, Well with the effort.


Gregg C

A few days ago, I tried finding a particular e-book, and noticed that I was missing many of my e-book files.
I think I forgot to transfer them when I got a new computer.
The particular e-book in question was purchased as part of a large order from the late Bob Cassidy, back when he was selling his stuff directly (as opposed to via Jheff or Lybrary)
So I guess there is no hope to get them back.
I guess the moral of the story is to keep good backups.

You can get about 9 gigs of Dropbox for free..

About 15 gigs on Google drive for free.

And on box you can get about 10 gigs

All free.

E-mail me with details. I may be able to help you.
- Jheff

Cool!!
I will dig up evidence of the order(s).
Thanks, JHEFF!!!!

Elliott