Kodak EasyShare upgrade disaster not compatible with WindowsXP

[photonut]

I have not upgraded KodakEasyShare since 2005 because it conflicted with
WindowsXP. I recently tried an upgrade and lost all my photo albums!! Also
when I open up Kodak everything is gray and fuzzy and the photos on my
computer screen have poor color and resolution. I want to go back and keep
my albums which took hours and hours and days to make. Before I had
beautiful photos on the computer screen. I have always had trouble with the
display not working with EasyShare since my first upgrade. I have to reset
the 32 bit color every time I open it. HOw do I undo this upgrade and
retrieve all my photo albums in EasyShare? THanks!!!

 

[Jim Dell]

I have not upgraded KodakEasyShare since 2005 because it conflicted with
WindowsXP. I recently tried an upgrade and lost all my photo albums!! Also
when I open up Kodak everything is gray and fuzzy and the photos on my
computer screen have poor color and resolution. I want to go back and keep
my albums which took hours and hours and days to make. Before I had
beautiful photos on the computer screen. I have always had trouble with the
display not working with EasyShare since my first upgrade. I have to reset
the 32 bit color every time I open it. HOw do I undo this upgrade and
retrieve all my photo albums in EasyShare? THanks!!!

Mine setup a new path to My Documents ignoring the previously set
location. Do a search for JPG files and see where on your hard drive
they are stored.

Jim

 

[R. McCarty]

Not sure about Easy Share's compatibility, but you really should know
and understand the importance of backups. Personal data and for that
matter everything you store on a PC is at a risk of loss. A hard drive is
not "Permanent". A drive can fail at any time, for a number of reasons.
Backups can be as simple as copying important data to a Thumb drive
or burn to an Optical disk. It's a painful lesson, but loosing data is going
to happen to everyone eventually. The only variable is how much data
gets lost.

As to your problem it's doubtful that undoing a update will restore your
photo albums. You probably should check and see if Kodak provides
a forum to discuss problems with their software. The display issue(s) are
probably related to the Display adapter driver. Computer software can be
interdependent on drivers - sometimes you must update both drivers &
applications to get the full benefit of fixes and updates.

One thing that might help is to try a System Restore to a date before you
upgraded the Kodak software. However, System Restore does not
process/track user data only the System state and applications. I'm not
familiar with how Easy Share stores data and whether it would be found
in the My Documents path or with the \Program Files\ EasyShare folders.

Regardless of how this issue ends up, you need to implement a backup
plan and do it on a regular basis.