Monday, August 21, 2006

my weekend

Three adults working 8 hours on a wonky computer to arrive at the conclusion that it's the motherboard and ergo it's probably best to replace the whole thing.

Hard drive accidentally erased (no, it wasn't me!)

Some quiet swearing.

I spend the rest of the weekend alternating between frantically searching for my backups and questioning my sanity. I had the e-mail .pst backup because Roo had just made that one and I couldn't lose something that fast. I found the Picasa photo backup disk (boy, am I glad about that one!), but nothing else. I'm sure I made a backup a couple weeks ago. I think I made a backup a couple weeks ago. I know I looked at the files, thought about which ones I certainly wanted, and I thought I burned a data disk. I even have a vague memory of holding it in my hand.

But I can't find it.

And it's possible that it doesn't exist. That I only got as far as a certain point and that I didn't do the final burn, saving it for 'later'.

Except, I think I did do it.

Maybe.

5 comments:

Navhelowife said...

Oh Ick...I hope you did back up and that you find it. If not, at least your intentions were good....

The Queen said...

I hope you didn't lose any WRITING! That is my worst nightmare.

Anonymous said...

Sorry to hear that. I once lost 2 years worth of business records when my computer crashed. And the backup disc was corrupted. I re-entered 2 years worth of cancelled checks and data from bank statements. I cried a lot.

Melora said...

How awful. Good for you for keeping all those backups.

Meretta said...

Fingers crossed!

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