{"id":41,"date":"2003-08-17T19:28:22","date_gmt":"2003-08-17T23:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=41"},"modified":"2005-12-04T09:56:27","modified_gmt":"2005-12-04T14:56:27","slug":"restoration-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/restoration-tragedy","title":{"rendered":"Restoration Tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diagnosis on my desktop computer: D drive is fine, but the C drive is kaput. D drive has the Voyant files and most of the other data. The C drive held the OS, the applications, the drivers, and, unfortunately, my e-mail. So it looks like I need to get a data recovery firm to haul all the Outlook\/Express e-mail files out of the dead C drive. Grr.<\/p>\n<p>But at least I don&#8217;t have to re-rip about 300 CDs for my music library (which would involve fighting off the giant spiders while hauling the CDs up from storage).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diagnosis on my desktop computer: D drive is fine, but the C drive is kaput. D drive has the Voyant files and most of the other data. The C drive held the OS, the applications, the drivers, and, unfortunately, my e-mail. So it looks like I need to get a data recovery firm to haul &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/restoration-tragedy\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Restoration Tragedy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-F","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1234,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/getting-better-all-the-time","url_meta":{"origin":41,"position":0},"title":"Getting better all the time","author":"Gil","date":"December 6, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday, my dad picked up a new iPod. 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