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May. 26th, 2013 11:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
winterbadgerTo hell with this damn touchpad and thank god for Carbonite.
My laptop's touchpad has been getting more and more sensitive lately, "responding" to commands that I didn't try to give it.
Today I've spent all morning organizing my photo cache on my laptop, about 6-7 years of photos.
When I'd gotten about half the job done, my finger slipped as I was moving something, and a message popped up telling me that something was being deleted.
Every time I delete something, a message comes up asking if I want to be sure. For some reason, not this time (or the same finger slip automatically approved it, who knows?)
I thought, "What could it be deleting?" I flip back to the main window--it's deleting ALL MY PHOTOS. I cancelled as fast as I could, but about half of them were already gone.
I tried restoring from the Recycling bin immediately, but it seemed that only things I had specifically and intentionally deleted myself were in the Recycling--none of what had just been deleted. But I tried restoring those anyway. It said it would take 45 minutes, so I was hopeful that perhaps this would somehow be everything, and I left it alone.
I came back just now, and it had finished restoring--only those things I had intentionally deleted.
I checked my Carbonite backup--but it was showing only what was in my folder NOW. I quickly suspended backup, realizing that it had already started saving the current state of my drive as if that were what I wanted to preserve. Fortunately, I was able to find an older version of backup on Carbonite, one from before this morning. I've lost four hours of work, but at least (I think) I have not lost 7 years of photos.
ASAP, once I've gotten everything back, I'm backup up all the photos and music to a second, physical drive. Just to be sure.
And I'm getting a new laptop--one with more reliable controls.
My laptop's touchpad has been getting more and more sensitive lately, "responding" to commands that I didn't try to give it.
Today I've spent all morning organizing my photo cache on my laptop, about 6-7 years of photos.
When I'd gotten about half the job done, my finger slipped as I was moving something, and a message popped up telling me that something was being deleted.
Every time I delete something, a message comes up asking if I want to be sure. For some reason, not this time (or the same finger slip automatically approved it, who knows?)
I thought, "What could it be deleting?" I flip back to the main window--it's deleting ALL MY PHOTOS. I cancelled as fast as I could, but about half of them were already gone.
I tried restoring from the Recycling bin immediately, but it seemed that only things I had specifically and intentionally deleted myself were in the Recycling--none of what had just been deleted. But I tried restoring those anyway. It said it would take 45 minutes, so I was hopeful that perhaps this would somehow be everything, and I left it alone.
I came back just now, and it had finished restoring--only those things I had intentionally deleted.
I checked my Carbonite backup--but it was showing only what was in my folder NOW. I quickly suspended backup, realizing that it had already started saving the current state of my drive as if that were what I wanted to preserve. Fortunately, I was able to find an older version of backup on Carbonite, one from before this morning. I've lost four hours of work, but at least (I think) I have not lost 7 years of photos.
ASAP, once I've gotten everything back, I'm backup up all the photos and music to a second, physical drive. Just to be sure.
And I'm getting a new laptop--one with more reliable controls.
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Date: 2013-05-26 04:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-26 04:20 pm (UTC)Did I ever tell you about the Sunday before my general exams? My generals were going to be on Wednesday; I'd been reading and studying and preparing for almost a year, but still felt woefully underprepared. As I'd been going through my reading list, I'd been creating a number of documents: an annotated bibliography, a list of essay-length answers to the questions I knew were coming, a list of questions I still needed to get answers to before the day of. Sunday morning, I had all these documents open.
Then Word had an error and shut down. Then my computer froze and had to be restarted.
When I restarted it, all of the documents I'd had open at the time of the error were corrupted beyond repair. I went to my backups; they'd been affected by it, too. I went to the Apple store; it turned out that some security program whose name I now can't even remember had glitched at the same time as Word, and there was nothing at all they could do. I lost it all.
I was lucky, in that all it caused me was a couple days' panic (and I still passed my exam, thank you!), but wow. There is nothing quite like the stress of losing important files.