Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
I recently lost a hard drive. Can't explain it. But all of our family photos are gone. Last night, the apple tv was in screensaver mode and I noticed a few pictures in the screensaver. They must be in a cache somewhere. Is there anyway to get these out to a file?
AppleTV 2, Windows 7
I've read a few posts that talk about photos being stord in the icloud. I have a windows 7 systems with an apple tv connected to itunes. I haven't set up photo stream that I know of. Are these in the icloud? Can i get them?
Unfortunately there is no way to access the photos on an AppleTV 2/3 that were being used as a screensaver.
The only photos stored in the cloud would be 'Photostream' photos for a particular iCloud identity use to take photos on an iPhone/iPad or imported to a suitably set up Mac/PC.
See:
http://www.apple.com/uk/icloud/features/photo-stream.html
I'm not cler about the Pictures Library aspect mentioned here i.e. does it just get updated with photos from an iOS device camera or are pictures imported in a PC in a particular way also added to Photostream.
Photostream is also limited in what it holds - I seem to recall it was the last 30 days photos but rarely use it myself.
What happened to the hard drive? Have you considered a commercial data recovery option, though it would undoubtedly be quite expensive.
Not sure if this would work:
https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm
I did actually buy years ago, but couldn't recover an old Maxtor drive with it. Unfortunately no demo but they offer a 30 day money back guarantee (I didn't bother as I though I might try it again in the future).
AC
My main hard drive just turned up "Unallocated". So I pulled out the back up drives and started copying all of my data back over. I used sevral old, small hard drives to back up all of my data.
I began to copy data back over. Drive 1, then drive 2, finally i pulled out drive 3 with the family photos. At that point I discovered my wife had inadvertantly placed a plastic tube I had on my desk into the drawer with the hard drives. That container was "FULL" of high power magnets I was using for a company R&D project.
So, I had partially written over the hard drive and then discovered the corrupted backups.
:-(
..I will never question triple redundancy again.
beckntrav wrote:
My main hard drive just turned up "Unallocated". So I pulled out the back up drives and started copying all of my data back over. I used sevral old, small hard drives to back up all of my data.
I began to copy data back over. Drive 1, then drive 2, finally i pulled out drive 3 with the family photos. At that point I discovered my wife had inadvertantly placed a plastic tube I had on my desk into the drawer with the hard drives. That container was "FULL" of high power magnets I was using for a company R&D project.
So, I had partially written over the hard drive and then discovered the corrupted backups.
:-(
..I will never question triple redundancy again.
😢
That's really bad luck. Forensic drive recovery might be able to salvage something despite the magnets but I suspect it would be prohibitively expensive.
When that Maxtor I mentioned failed 10 years ago on a PC I lost some photos. Ever since I keep at least 3 or 4 copies on various internal/external drives but it's all a bit disorganised and need a lot of culling as I copy the compact flash cards with all photos (good/bad/useless!) rather than culling then backing up. Many people also suggest you keep a backup at work or some other location in case of fire/theft etc.
AC
retrieving photos from an apple tv cache
