FUCK.

"Nibby" (nibby68) 03/16/2015 at 00:30 • Filed to: None

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Fucking made a huge mistake and deleted a bunch of my thesis stuff that I worked on this week.

I meant to backup my new additions to my site to my hard drive and instead I accidentally *DELETED* them. Trying to restore them... I was able to get all the text and some pictures back, but I need 3 or 4 of them... which are gone forever due to my stupidity. I hate myself so much right now.

I deleted the originals earlier as well, but file recovery programs are near useless with SSDs.

wunderwagen wants a longer roof > Nibby 03/16/2015 at 00:35

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Son of a bitch. Thankfully you were able to recover the text, can you retake pictures?

71MGBGT Likes Subarus of Unusual Colors > Nibby 03/16/2015 at 00:37

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Nibby > wunderwagen wants a longer roof 03/16/2015 at 00:38

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No, I can't retake the pictures since they were pictures of kids user testing a project I am working on. >:(

wunderwagen wants a longer roof > Nibby 03/16/2015 at 00:41

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Fuck. A pitfall of the SSD.

This makes me want to back up my hard drive right now.

NotUnlessRoundIsFunny > Nibby 03/16/2015 at 00:41

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That really sucks. Sorry man.

Tohru > Nibby 03/16/2015 at 00:49

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Normally I would be snarky, but that sucks man. Sorry to hear it.

boxrocket > Nibby 03/16/2015 at 01:13

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That blows. It's also why I have everything make a redundant copy of itself in OneDrive, a memory card, and my computer's secondary hard drives every few minutes. Haven't lost anything in years.

armandthegreat > Nibby 03/16/2015 at 01:39

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Hopefully you will soon transition to cloud based storage for academic work. I lost a few important files before I made the switch. Now, I've been using Microsoft OneDrive for years. It includes built in Microsoft Office for free. Try it out. I never worry about losing docs anymore.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Nibby 03/16/2015 at 03:09

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oops.

orcim > Nibby 03/16/2015 at 05:00

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Aw nutz. I hate this scenario. I've been on the line where someone was looking for anyone, including God, to save them because of this same situation, but I couldn't help, and sympathy/compassion/understanding just suck in the face of it. Sigh.

There's been one redeeming light for me in my almost 40 years of computing: I've only done this once for really important data. This is your once(?) and now, you aren't gonna suffer it any more, since two bits to a donut says you're gonna handle it up front like a boss.

In the end, one of the things I ended up doing was managing the release team for a division that needed to reconstitute a product, every single bit, within 72 hours of a 747 parking itself into the building. Backups, we gots 'em. Disaster. What disaster? No such thing (as far as data was concerned.) I learned my lesson.

Bits are not permanent, kinda like corn.

Nibby > boxrocket 03/16/2015 at 08:39

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Yeah I have everything backed up on an external drive and my laptop as well... ironically I deleted the stuff from the server instead of my HD while syncing

Nibby > orcim 03/16/2015 at 08:40

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Yeah, at least I was able to get most of it back and it's just missing a few images. One of them I was able to recover so I guess that will have to suffice for now.

jariten1781 > Nibby 03/16/2015 at 09:49

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I lost a proposal once. Took it home to put on some finishing touches, dog whacked laptop off table, I checked everything out and it looked ok. Apparently though there was a head crash and overnight the hard drive progressively ate itself. When I got up in the morning to check the computer was dead dead.

Not worried, I figure we'd just be working with the stuff on the main server from the night before...so a couple hours lost...total pain in the ass, but not a deal breaker. Well....Apparently, overnight, all of the proposal files on the laptop corrupted, but the OS and backup software kept running and it just happened to be my weekly sync night so the files on the server were over written with the corrupted stuff. Fuck. Last image we had on tape was like 2 weeks old so we tried to basically do 2 weeks of work (~425 man-hours) in the next 36 hours or so till it was due for submission.

We didn't win the contract (and it was a ~2M one). I'll never know if we lost because someone else was actually better or if it was because the proposal was rushed because my dog injured my harddrive which caused it to commit suicide in the most inconvenient way possible.

Thank god nightly backups are affordable these days.

Nibby > jariten1781 03/16/2015 at 10:38

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Oh my, that's terribly unlucky! Sorry to hear that