Granite and distant snowy peaks

How far will it be to that snowy mountains.
As usual: a wonderful composition.
Still problems with your harddrive?

Thanks Leon,
15-20 km, I guess. They're not particularly high nor all that far away but the snow makes them look mightier and more distant than they really are!
Yes. These recent uploads are from a few photos that were accidentally stored on my old computer (rather than my external hard drive) and were therefore transferred to my new laptop when my stuff was being copied across. It was intended to keep the external hard drive just for photos and that is where 99.9% of them are. My external hard drive is OK. It is just that I can't now open ipernity on my old laptop, some code has changed I think and whereas I followed the guidelines re new password etc some time ago, I was unable to make the necesary changes on my old laptop. The answer would be to be able to transfer to my new laptop from my external hard drive but there is the added and serious problem that I can no longer associate Picasa 3 with my new computer as it is no longer supported by Google. And all my photos are stored in the cloud through Picasa 3. I'm a bit stuck really, unless I can find someone at Ipernity who might have an idea about how I can get a new or old password to work. I just haven't had the time to do this yet!
In some respects I'm just pleased that I uploaded over half the photos I wanted to keep from my archives to ipernity before this happened!

I wonder how many people have at least some stories of lost or missing in hard drive (and or backup) failure. Quite a few I imagine. I have a hard drive that had three years of RAW files that I can no longer access. It may be there were few if any interesting photos there as I would always have created jpg and stored the best ones on Picassa, Flickr but I won't find out now. I also have some DVD backups from a WIndows XP program ( I think called Nero) that don't read on my Windows 10 but I understand from a Google search are probably recoverable if I put the effort in one day. Do you think we should create a new iPernity group perhaps called 'Backup What Backup' or even 'Back from the Dead!' for just these photos recovered with great or at least a little effort .. the story of the effort involved would have to be included ?

A sad story my friends. As an x-IT technician I can vouch for the number of people who approached me and asked for ways to recover their dead hard-drives (whether internal or external) -mostly it was usually bad news. Although there are ways, to recover some if not all software files from many disc faults, mostly the hard-drives (and sticks) sometimes still seated in their computers, ended up on the tip -broken-up with their owners un-recovered files still on-board. Sods-law too that the only back-up for that was on a lost stick, CD or forgotten (defunct) passworded cloud. I never did recover all my photos from Google's late Panoramio, fortunately experience has made me always to back up on several mediums nearly at once. Worst case is backing up the unknown corrupted hard-drive over the top of the only other hard drive full of your good files, ending up with two corrupted copies! - Nero still uses its 'Nero-backitup' program so you might still get one of those to recover your old backups. Maybe lessons for all of us here. Good luck. ~ Herb

Probably too painful for the poor souls involved,Colin!

All of what you say rings a bell at one time or other, Herb! whether personally or third hand.
Thanks to Leon's suggestion, I now copy a few photos at a time on a pen drive. I can still upload new photos to my old computer and edit them in Picasa. I can also migrate a few of those at a time too for uploading to my new laptop. The problem will come when I lose picasa on my old laptop. Google (yes that lot of gangsters again!) have stopped updating and servicing Picasa so I can't add it to my new computer which is Windows 10 (so there are also many surprising things I can no longer do, such as use Skype as the audio browsers are totally incompatible with certain apps, such as Skype, owned by Microsoft).
Google and Microsoft ... Words fail me!

well observed, I’ll think of a good new Group one day :-)

Thanks Herb it’s something I will try one day as with all my backups the need to find something that is remembered but missing will drive the effort to do this

Superbe photo. Nicole.

Thank you, Nicole!

What a gorgeous view. The snow on the mountain tops look super and the landscape is just amazing

Wonderful vista.

A nicely framed view to a beautiful landscape !

Another fine vista here Andy -fortunately still available to us here on Ipernity.

Cheers, Herb

Leon offered me a solution, to copy my existing photos on my external hard drive across from my old computer to the new on a pen drive. It works.

Great view Andy!