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PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:50 pm 
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Im sorry, I know this isnt the forum for this but anyway I need to vent.

I JUST DELETED 3 DAYS WORK! I have stupidly stupidly stupidly been working on the same copy of my word document for 3 days thanks to the hibernate function.  I thought my word was autosaving.  It wasnt.  So now in a moment of madness I just closed document, wasnt thinking and said "no" to save changes (i thought I was closing a diffferent doc!) and Poof! All the changes to my thesis chapter gone...

Arrgh.  Now its going to be a long night trying to get what I  remember back on the page.... blub...

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:52 pm 
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When doing my dissertation I copied over a new file with an old file by accident. Lost a weeks work and the deadline was a few days away. Words failed me.

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 9:05 pm 
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No temporary file left in your temporary files directory?

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 9:06 pm 
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Yeah, thats pretty much how I felt.  Amazingly i seem to be on a role getting the words back on the page.  And it reads better than it did before.  Maybe this is a good thing (also I think it helps that im doing a sciency bit so its mainly describing graphs)

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 9:06 pm 
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&E-C  Yep, been there and nope its gone.  Damn managed desktop uni machines.

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 9:09 pm 
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i know how you feel, i managed to scare myself this week by overwriting my latest version of my dissertation with an old version by accident... luckly i had just made the back up of my hard drive an hour before...

hope the re wirt goes well.

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 9:11 pm 
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Well.... Damn :(

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 9:16 pm 
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Damn that sucks. It's happened to me once or twice. But, as you say, sometimes when you redo it, it can be better and more concise.

The only way to go is to become an obsessive-compulsive about saving, backing up and resaving. I don't even save using the same document - I save any changes as a new document periodically (so that if something happens to the document I can go back to the last save).

Which reminds me, I've not backed up my files for a while...
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 10:25 pm 
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damn i glade that leopard has time machine and i know how you feel just bug proofed 46000 lines of code and forgot so save the doc when i should send it (oops were is it) at  that moment i cried (it was the time machine i was bug proofing prier to release of the network patch :''(

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 11:20 pm 
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CHeers for the sympathising guys, its amazing how hearing that other people have done similar things helps lift the spirits :)  

in the end I think it was productive as it killed off 3 days of tearing my hair out and forced me to refocus.  Maybe I should do this wit the other 20,000 words :D ....  I really shouldnt even joke about that *touches wood*




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PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 11:56 pm 
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that's what Tolkien did 38 total rewrites of lotr and the result i leave it to you to decide

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 7:33 am 
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Sorry to hear that Joker - and good like - I've just been through the thesis business and it can be a pain, especially when you lose something - at one point I managed to loose a sheet of results (handwritten, see, I don't even need a computer to mess things up for me) and spent a couple of days looking for it. It had the parameters for preparing specimens for half my tests on it, and although Iknew it all, there was one value I just could not remember. Found it in the end, but it was nasty!

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 9:47 am 
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It's happened to me a couple of times, and it's soul destroying.  You truly have my sympathies, J0k3r :(
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 10:43 am 
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I sympathise sir!

At work, I'm the IT guy and thought our server was automatically backing up every day.

Then BANG, a hard drive failed. We thought it'd be ok because of the auto backup, nope. The server hadn't backed anything up for over 6 MONTHS!!!!!!!! Even now half a year later we're still feeling the repercussions of that.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 2:24 pm 
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I'll extend my sympathies as well J0k3r.

I use to work on an IT helpdesk for a uni (whilst I was studying there). ?It amazes me still how many people rely on one copy of their ultra important documents. ?It's even more amazing when often these are on floppy disks or USB keys...

I lost count of the people that left the helpdesk utterly devastated after we couldn't recover the data and we went to great lengths to recover data believe me.




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