Yeah, it is a great feeling. It was the birth ones more than anything else coz I knew we hadn't put any of them on fb or shared them with anyone else so they were definitely gone. Eeek, just had a look and iPhoto is saying there are 23,000 photos!! I still have another couple of thousand to copy too. I think some are copies as there was extensive damage and they could only get raw files and I'd noticed there was a lot of duplicates and tiny files etc, but still Ohmigod indeed! I think a second back up is a mighty fine idea!!

I've got a broken lens here MN that my dad gave me, I keep meaning to take it to the camera shop to see if they can do anything with it. If I do it anytime soon I'll let you know incase it's similar.