Areas we cover · Rottingdean
Data recovery in Rottingdean. A parish inside a city, and its picture archives.
Rottingdean is a village and a civil parish inside the city of Brighton and Hove — the only parish council in it, with nine members elected on the city's own four-year cycle. It sits on the A259 between Brighton Marina and Saltdean, has no station of its own, and keeps much of its history in photographs.
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What Rottingdean sends in.
Something else? Run the triage →| The problem as described | Why it's a local regular | First thing we do |
|---|---|---|
| A museum's collections database that stopped opening | A charity with a curator and a gallery runs real collections software, usually on one machine | Image it first, ask questions after |
| A gallery's print masters | High-resolution scans and print files are the whole business, and rarely duplicated | Checked against your own catalogue |
| A photographer's card, corrupted | The village is photographed constantly, and cards still fail mid-shoot | Eject; shoot nothing further |
| A school's safeguarding and assessment records | Schools here run an MIS, CCTV and staff laptops like any employer | Disks bare, each bay numbered |
| A holiday let's booking machine | A season of bookings and a decade of guests, stored locally | Priority when the income stops |
Rottingdean cases, step by step.
Four questions from the village.
Do you cover Rottingdean and the rest of BN2?
Yes. BN2 runs from Kemptown out through Ovingdean, Rottingdean, Saltdean and Woodingdean, and straddles two authorities into the bargain. None of that affects a parcel: all of those addresses reach one bench, on one set of terms.
We're a charity — is a museum collection worth sending?
Yes, and it is a job we would rather see early than late. Name the volumes that hold the collection and the images, and the read is sequenced to reach those first.
The booking laptop has stopped mid-season — can it be prioritised?
Yes. Tell us the bookings have stopped and the job goes ahead of the queue; a written quote and a realistic timeline follow as soon as the first read is done.
Any Rottingdean-specific advice?
Two things. A drive inside its own enclosure can be posted as it is, but a tower stays at home and sends its bare disk. And never power a suspect drive once more to check.
Where Rottingdean readers go next.
One parcel from Rottingdean, and we begin.
Power the device down, tell us what happened, and let the diagnosis be free before any decision has to be.