Layers disappear from saved files

[MrsP-from-C]

Quote:May I ask how you came to the conclusion that your disk was broken?

Yes. It was when my husband wanted to copy photos from the camera to his computer. He then copied them to mine via network. When he wanted to look at them on his machine they couldn't be opened. So we watched on mine. Later I ran a check on his hard disk ( we're on linux, but tools are similar I think). It showed errors which I let it repair. Shortly after again he couldn't access files. I wanted to check again but nothing worked anymore. Machine did not even want to boot with that disk. After replacing and restoring from backup everything is fine now. We did not have a thunderstorm or so, but the disk was just very old.

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(Yesterday, 06:01 PM)MrsP-from-C Wrote:

Quote:May I ask how you came to the conclusion that your disk was broken?

Yes. It was when my husband wanted to copy photos from the camera to his computer. He then copied them to mine via network. When he wanted to look at them on his machine they couldn't be opened. So we watched on mine. Later I ran a check on his hard disk ( we're on linux, but tools are similar I think). It showed errors which I let it repair. Shortly after again he couldn't access files. I wanted to check again but nothing worked anymore. Machine did not even want to boot with that disk. After replacing and restoring from backup everything is fine now. We did not have a thunderstorm or so, but the disk was just very old.

I see. Thank you!

My system drive is an SSD that isn't much older than 5 years; so I don't think that it could be at its life's end now. Although it's still possible that it got damaged by the lightning and repaired by chkdsk. Perhaps I'll never know because I wasn't able to see the results of that chkdsk run.