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[lotesse]

I'm in the middle of a computer nightmare. The little cat likes to sleep on it, and somehow he managed to drag the folder that holds all of my current work and also my academic archives for the past three years into the trash, which I then unknowlingly emptied. I should have checked it, I know, but I never delete anything important. I'm a total packrat - I don't think I've ever deleted a word document. I just get rid of dl'ed stuff, old pictures that I didn't want to make into icons anyway, stuff like that.

I think I should be able to get the files back. I didn't Secure Empty Trash, which means that the file locations were deleted but they themselves are still ghosting around on my drive. As long as I don't overwrite them with new data, they should be retrievable. As soon as I realized what had happened, I had hysterics and closed it up. I can't do anything till Monday, and I'm just going to Not Touch It until then.

I feel like a total wreck. All my work.

Comments

[lazy-neutrino.livejournal.com]

Fingers crossed that you get it all back. What an awful thing to have to worry about!

[lotesse]

thanks. I'm trying not to think about it :(

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Oh my god. I really hope you get it back.

[lotesse]

Thanks. If the worst comes to it, I can go around to my old profs and get hard copies of everything and re-enter them...I don't really want it to come to that.

The one thing I've never understood abou "Little Women" is how Jo ever could forgive Amy for burning her book. Losing work is about the most awful thing in the world.

[singeaddams.livejournal.com]

I couldn't understand anything about that book. Still, I definitely agree with you. Losing work is terrible, I dearly hope you manage to get it all back.