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die4pies Scorpio

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PostPosted: Fri May 20, 2016 4:57 pm
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Hi Nickstars!

Long time no chat.

My ongoing hip replacement saga is now with lawyers. this has dramatically curtailed all my non-essential activities which means just concentrating on my VFL photography, as far as footy goes, it also means I am broke...but that is another story....

A good friend of mine, Elizabeth, has had a terrible accident with her laptop and her hard drive is critically damaged. You will know her as the Mother of our very own 2010 premiership champion Heritier Lumumba.

On this hard drive are two very important books. My guys at Technetics are confident they can recover the files but it will take several weeks and cost $1,366.

I have started a GoFundMe campaign for her to raise the money and hopefully a little extra for the publishing too.

I am not here to ask for money, but if you can donate that would be greatly appreciated. I just ask if you guys could please share the campaign with your contacts and hopefully some kind souls will help her out.

Details are here: https://www.gofundme.com/hdddatarecovery

Thank you
Shane

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PostPosted: Fri May 20, 2016 10:17 pm
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Terrible news about your Hip.

Hope you Friend can get the Money she Needs

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PostPosted: Fri May 20, 2016 10:25 pm
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If this is important enough surely Heritier can stump up the money. It is a pittance to an AFL player compared to a student, unemployed or retired person where 50 bucks is like gold.
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PostPosted: Fri May 20, 2016 11:29 pm
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I will share it about and see if some people can offer some help.

Hopefully she can get the funds needed and get it repaired.

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PostPosted: Fri May 20, 2016 11:35 pm
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ronrat wrote:
If this is important enough surely Heritier can stump up the money. It is a pittance to an AFL player compared to a student, unemployed or retired person where 50 bucks is like gold.


Damn good point, her son can't give her $2k?

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PostPosted: Sat May 21, 2016 1:02 am
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Of course we should keep in mind that we don't know what their relationship is like right now or whether Heritier has $1500 to spare (though, gotta say, you get fined that much for taking part in a bit of push and shove, right? So it mustn't exactly be a bank breaker for most AFL players). Either way, hope she can get the data back Shane and wish her all the best from us – always upsetting to lose stuff on external hard drives (I had to deal with this exact issue a couple of months ago, although thankfully I didn't have anything too precious on mine).
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PostPosted: Sun May 22, 2016 10:31 am
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Same here David. I bought iCare Data Recovery Pro for A$100 and recovered the 200GB of data. Time consuming but best money I've spent on software since you could buy DOS games Wink

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5150 Sagittarius



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PostPosted: Sun May 22, 2016 4:14 pm
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Wouldnt it be cheaper to buy/download new books? Or is it for a new lap top.

If it's just a labour component to recover the data and your such good mates, why not just do it for her? I'm a plumber and if one of my mates has a burst pipe or shitter has backed up I just do the job and consider it part of the friendship.

Not that I am looking to contribute, I find it strange that people are expected to just donate to a cause that doesn't seem really worthy.

Following on from why hasn't she asked her pretty wealthy son, wouldn't this be better on a Melbourne FC forum? Sterotypically they have more money!

Anyhow, good luck.
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David Libra

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PostPosted: Sun May 22, 2016 5:16 pm
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Well, she's Shane's friend first and foremost, so obviously that's why he's asking here. Unless he posts on a Melbourne forum in his spare time (Laughing), obviously this'd be the best place to put this. And I think these things can be difficult to fix and may be beyond Shane's specialisation (hence the expensive quote) – a friend of mine with IT skills once had a crack at fixing one of my damaged external hard drives and was only able to recover one partition.

Anyway, it sounded like the most valuable thing that's at risk of being lost are the books she's been writing – obviously irreplaceable if she hasn't backed them up.

If there's one piece of advice I could offer here, it'd be to reduce the price target to just cover the cost of the repair as opposed to trying to raise funds for the publishing costs at the same time. I don't know how GoFundMe works specifically, but a lot of these crowdfunding sites won't give you anything unless you hit the target, and at the moment it's not looking too promising.

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PostPosted: Sun May 22, 2016 6:29 pm
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5150 wrote:
Wouldnt it be cheaper to buy/download new books? Or is it for a new lap top.

If it's just a labour component to recover the data and your such good mates, why not just do it for her? I'm a plumber and if one of my mates has a burst pipe or shitter has backed up I just do the job and consider it part of the friendship.

Not that I am looking to contribute, I find it strange that people are expected to just donate to a cause that doesn't seem really worthy.

Following on from why hasn't she asked her pretty wealthy son, wouldn't this be better on a Melbourne FC forum? Sterotypically they have more money!

Anyhow, good luck.


Yeah I think there is far too much of this out there at the moment. It kind of takes away from genuine causes such as health problems and raising funds for those desperately in need.

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PostPosted: Sun May 22, 2016 7:26 pm
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5150 wrote:
Wouldnt it be cheaper to buy/download new books? Or is it for a new lap top.


She wrote the books in question.

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5150 Sagittarius



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PostPosted: Sun May 22, 2016 8:48 pm
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The Prototype wrote:
5150 wrote:
Wouldnt it be cheaper to buy/download new books? Or is it for a new lap top.


She wrote the books in question.


Where does it say that? I must have missed it.
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PostPosted: Mon May 23, 2016 12:28 am
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It's in the link – apparently a book about her experiences in Brazil, and a poetry collection.
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PostPosted: Mon May 23, 2016 9:48 am
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David wrote:
If there's one piece of advice I could offer here, it'd be to reduce the price target to just cover the cost of the repair as opposed to trying to raise funds for the publishing costs at the same time. I don't know how GoFundMe works specifically, but a lot of these crowdfunding sites won't give you anything unless you hit the target, and at the moment it's not looking too promising.


Agree. The funny thing is, in the OP he says 'a little extra for publishing' - the 'little extra' is double the cost of the repairs.. Shocked


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PostPosted: Mon May 23, 2016 10:06 am
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Sounds like a scam to me. What sort of person would write not one but two books and not even have a single backup?

It is my professional duty to be supportive and sympathetic in such cases, but I'm not at work today and she's not my customer so I can be bluntly honest this time. If the story is true, she was incredibly careless to the point of stupidity.

OK, sure, people do that, we have all done stupid things at least one in our lives, but fair crack of the whip here. If it's that important she can ask a family member to help or get a part-time job for a couple of weeks and save up. (Nobody saves up for anything anymore. It's all instant fix, pay later. Except where it's instant fix, get somebody else to pay later.)

Include me out.

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