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die4pies
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Joined: 07 Nov 2005 Location: Trenerry Cres.
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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 _________________ "MAKE COLLINGWOOD GRATE AGAIN" |
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Dave The Man
Joined: 01 Apr 2005 Location: Someville, Victoria, Australia
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Terrible news about your Hip.
Hope you Friend can get the Money she Needs _________________ I am Da Man |
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ronrat
Joined: 22 May 2006 Location: Thailand
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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. _________________ Annoying opposition supporters since 1967. |
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The Prototype
Paint my face with a good-for-nothin smile.
Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Location: Hobart, Tasmania
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stui magpie
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Joined: 03 May 2005 Location: In flagrante delicto
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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? _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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David
I dare you to try
Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: Andromeda
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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). _________________ All watched over by machines of loving grace |
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Mountains Magpie
Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Location: Somewhere between now and then
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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
MM _________________ Spiral progress, unstoppable,
exhausted sources replaced by perversion |
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5150
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
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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
I dare you to try
Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: Andromeda
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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 (), 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. _________________ All watched over by machines of loving grace |
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think positive
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Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Location: somewhere
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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. _________________ You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
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The Prototype
Paint my face with a good-for-nothin smile.
Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Location: Hobart, Tasmania
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5150
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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.
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She wrote the books in question. |
Where does it say that? I must have missed it. |
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David
I dare you to try
Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: Andromeda
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It's in the link – apparently a book about her experiences in Brazil, and a poetry collection. _________________ All watched over by machines of loving grace |
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luvdids
Joined: 22 Mar 2008 Location: work
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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..
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Tannin
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Joined: 06 Aug 2006 Location: Huon Valley Tasmania
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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. _________________ �Let's eat Grandma.� Commas save lives! |
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