Rob, if those top-end 35mm format owners are really convinced that there is no advantage to MFD then I'm content to leave them in peace in their little world.
From what I've read your travails weren't exactly caused by film. It seems more likely the cause is perhaps not being entirely computer savvy?
Hi Keith
I’ve just lost the lengthy reply to your post, so this time it’s going via Word! And shorter.
Yes, computer savvy isn’t my strongpoint, if anything really is, and I’d thought about that but ruled it out for the simple reason that I have never, to my knowledge, made a folder called Photoshop. Neither does such a folder appear within My Documents.
When a scan is completed, you are presented with two options: File name and Destination. I always send scans directly to My Images, where they get copied and turned into Work files. The scan files are then switched into a second folder called Original Scans, never to be touched again. Usually. The file called Scan that was first sent to My Images is then deleted from My Images to save space. Why have it in two folders?
I tried going to the All Programmes part of the computer and opened Adobe and there I found another part of the Adobe package that I wasn’t aware I had: Image Ready. What the hell is that for? Anyway, I opened it and to my surprise there were the missing files. But, they no longer appear there after that initial discovery. Sadly, neither does Photoshop (the fantasy) folder appear anymore either.
So, from twenty files I lost I have saved two. I can’t bear rescanning, so Sea can just friggin’ drown in itself with the gallons it already has.
I suspect that the computer is on its way to the knacker’s yard. On the other hand, the Glenn Miller CD I found in the vaults has some nice sounds to soothe the less than savage beast, or breast, as the case may be.
;-(
Rob C