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[Mike]

Thanks, Dean. While I didn't have nearly the amount of files on Fotki 
that you do, it was still upsetting to have them apparently missing. I 
will be looking forward to seeing the system back up and fully 
operational in the future. The thought of having to start all over again 
was truly daunting. Your news takes a load off of (what is left of) my 
mind.

In my case, my problem is the result of a seizure, not a stroke. The 
difference is that while some damage resulted from an operation to 
remove a tumor, everything else is pretty much intact. I can think OK 
and get around pretty well, but I have some short term memory problems, 
and the doctors tell me that it will be about a year before they will 
permit me to drive (even just around the property). Needless to say, I 
am arguing with the doctors about driving, but I don't seem to be 
getting much in the way of progress on that front - they are afraid that 
I will have another seizure while at the wheel and will kill someone. I 
do take medication, but that is apparently not enough to make them 
happy. I only had one seizure on July 4, but they still aren't convinced 
that I won't have another.

I am OK with most of it, but I really would like to get back on the 
tractors again - either to operate them around the property or to work 
on them. They also won't give me much in the way of predictions as to 
how long I will live, so I realize that I have to "thin the herd" and 
get rid of most of them so they won't be a burden for my wife when I go 
(I haven't counted, but there are at least a dozen out there between my 
barn and a neighbor's barn). Some of them work perfectly, while others 
are "ran when parked" or "could run if worked on a little".

Which brings me back to where I started - images and descriptions of all 
this hardware are posted on my Fotki website, and having that stuff up 
there would help to arrange things for sale. <www.fotki.com/mikesloane> 
is where the stuff is, but it appears that only about 10 percent of the 
material is posted - lots of blank images, etc.

Mike
Allamuchy NJ

On 11/16/2013 11:27 PM, Dean VP wrote:
> Mike,
>
> Good to hear that you are back up and running even if there might be a
> little miss once and a while.  :-) In regards to Fotki, I can truly relate
> to your issue with missing photos. I'm supposed to have over 35,000 photos
> on Fotki. Most of them tractor related. I've been in contact with the owner
> of Fotki recently and they have promised me that none of my pictures are
> lost, a huge amount of my pictures aren't there right now, but when they get
> the second set of servers up and running in Estonia, they will became active
> again.  I was told the second set of servers are in a cargo container and
> headed to Estonia right now via boat.  I don't know where they have my
> missing photos' stored right now but the total storage is supposed to 78,660
> GBytes for just my account.  I would guess at least half of that is missing
> right now.  I wouldn't even want to think about having to upload all that
> again.
>
> Dean VP
> Snohomish, WA