The Second Chance

It’s not always that you get a second chance,

Even in computing.

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A few days ago, whilst editing a new post, I blundered. Attempting to compress the picture files, I irreversibly converted them into little more than thumbnails. Such a loss is hardly shattering but it unsettled me. My impatience while tackling a new procedure had been needless.

I had been a little tired and clumsy that day. Even before my mistake, when gathering the photo images into a new parent folder, the computer seemed barely under my control. Rather disconcertingly, the new pictures disappeared completely at one stage.

But this vanishing trick turned to my advantage.

I have just discovered where the folder of unedited pictures was hiding. That original parent folder, its images still uncompressed, has been found!

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And now, with absolutely no apologies for self-indulgence, I re-present them

– uncompressed –

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“…and was lost, but is found…”

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Synchronicity is at play. The pain of loss and hope of discovery are described in other lives…

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