I lost thousands of photos when my phone crashed. Now I print them out for my daughter
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Stephen Buffardi Stephen Buffardi, with his wife Weena and daughter Sophia, lost thousands of family photos
As Stephen Buffardi was transferring photos to his new phone, the progress bar reached halfway - then it crashed. Thousands of pictures with friends and family, including early dates with his now wife, were lost forever. "It was annoying," says the 36-year-old, who lives in Massachusetts. He and his wife Weena, 32, now have a six-year-old daughter, Sophia. "When you have a kid you're like, it would have been nice to have those photos now - to save them for her." Sophia will never be able to see the pictures of her parents when they first met. For Stephen, this was a moment of realisation that digital photos don't always stand the test of time.
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