i have pure yellow sand .... 100% drainage ... IT IS THE MOST PERFECT SOIL TO GROW A VAST MAJORITY OF TREES [including maples and rebuds] ... your nursery gave you bum info to sell you over-priced products that were not necessary .... i would not go back there for 'expert' information .. though i might go back to buy stock THAT I KNOW is worthy .... as you drive around your 'hood ... is every tree within 2 miles cabled and chained and tied to the ground ... i will presume the answer is no ... if that is true ... it should dawn on you.. that local trees are more than capable of handling your local wind .... i know you are excited about your new house.. new garden.. new trees ... and i thank God you found us .... but you are thinking WWWAAAYYY outside the box here .... trees can grow centuries... with little or no help from us .. yet you want to go bonzo on these things .... relax ... slow down ... we will get you where you want to go ... at worst .. you could cut it off completely at the braces.. and insure that only one new branch lives thru next year.. and this tree can double in size in the next few years ... i actually had to do that with one stubborn redbud, years ago .... it just refused to grow to my expectations ... a hobby for dad.. who cut it to the ground a couple times to get it to grow like a tree, instead of a bush ... you have months to make these decisions ... for an investment of about $100 ... you might just want to replace these two trees with smaller versions .... and just get rid of the nightmares the prior owner created .... frankly.. if i didnt know better i might guess they just liked torturing their trees .... when i bought my first house.. i tried to 'save' all the historical plants that were most likely planted in the 40's by the original owners ... the happiest day of my garden life at that house was when i got rid of the last nightmare they planted ... history or not ... if you had 5 acres.. and these things were way out back ... then a renovation project might be interesting and fun .... but if you are within the limitations of suburbia.. which it looks like with that fence.. your peace of mind ... and your enjoyment of your yard.. might be better served by starting over ... good luck ken

PhotoRec is the reliable old standby for photo recovery, as Joe mentioned in the first post. But it's not so mouse click user friendly. Assuming the photos are on the internal memory, if you want to give it a try you need to get it into camera mode or "USB mass storage mode" so the memory will show up as a drive on your computer. For the former, try : http://www.tomsguide.com/faq/id-1921638/recover-deleted-photos-android-phone-tablet.html For the latter, try the faq on PhotoRec's site : http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec_FAQ#How_to_enable_the_USB_mass_storage_mode Then follow some tutorial for PhotoRec (there are many out there) like the one PhotoRec's site : http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec_Step_By_Step Having said all that, it might be easier to get the phone into "USB mass storage mode" and use the free Recuva tool : http://www.piriform.com/recuva Good luck, -Kent This post was edited by kbarb on Sat, Nov 29, 14 at 19:23

Basically it's safe and the right thing to do, imo. If you don't run the disk check, you would risk writing new photos to a damaged area of the drive. As long the disk's file table is not damaged, probably the worst that would happen is a few bytes or sectors have some corruption, and if you're lucky, you only have one or two damaged or irretrievable photos. If you do lose access to the drive, there are recovery tools specifically for recovering photos, namely "PhotoRec" which works very well. After you get everything working again, you might think about some kind of backup system so you have more than one copy of the photos. This post was edited by kbarb on Wed, Nov 26, 14 at 16:43

I made a mistake. Windows downloaded all the photos and deleted them in the time it took photoshop express to think about the matter and decided that it did not want to download them. I just took more photos and found the lost ones were in a folder. The problem is windows vista is competing with photoshop to be the downloader, and there is no way to make one of them dominate. But, I did not lose them after all. I feel so stupid. I am sorry to bother everyone.