I am an idiot

cvrefugee · September 25th, 2006, 03:26 AM

I was organizing the files/folders on my hard drive when I noticed my entire Video folder was gone (full of TV shows like Top Gear). I panicked! Thankfully I have an external backup drive but I haven't updated it in a few months. That means I lost the first three seasons of Top Gear (which I recently downloaded)...at least everything else was still there.

images/smilies/bangin.gif

Moral of the story? MAKE FREQUENT BACKUPS!

ESPNSTI · September 25th, 2006, 03:29 AM

Doh!

Ultra_Kool_Dude · September 25th, 2006, 03:34 AM

When I was a kid I put the entire Windows folder into my personal folder because I wanted everything together. 8)

BlaRo · September 25th, 2006, 03:35 AM

I pounded the keyboard on my Dad's borrowed laptop in China out of frustration so hard that I messed up the hard drive, nearly losing almost all 3,000+ pictures I took during the trip. images/smilies/oops.gif

Firecat · September 25th, 2006, 03:39 AM

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Originally Posted by cvg

my entire Video folder was gone (full of TV shows like Top Gear).

I bet 85% was porn images/smilies/wink.gif

matt_shaw · September 25th, 2006, 04:15 AM

can't you just use that system restore thing in windows? that's why i do every time i mess something up

Magnet · September 25th, 2006, 04:17 AM

I remember messing around with BIOS and SYSTEM.INI files thinking I knew better......

cvrefugee · September 25th, 2006, 04:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Firecat

Quote:

Originally Posted by cvg

my entire Video folder was gone (full of TV shows like Top Gear).

I bet 85% was porn images/smilies/wink.gif

Actually I only have TV shows...honest!

http://img82.imageshack.us/img82/9610/videosdf2.jpg

cvrefugee · September 25th, 2006, 04:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by matt_shaw

can't you just use that system restore thing in windows? that's why i do every time i mess something up

I thought about it, but then I read this:

System Restore is not intended for backing up personal files, so it cannot help you recover a personal file that has been deleted or damaged. You should still back up your personal files and important data on a regular basis using a backup program.

Jacobfox · September 25th, 2006, 04:37 AM

bummer, dude. that's why it makes sense to have a raid 1 config. except it's slow and a waste of space.

GPriest · September 25th, 2006, 05:35 AM

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Originally Posted by cvg

Quote:

Originally Posted by matt_shaw

can't you just use that system restore thing in windows? that's why i do every time i mess something up

I thought about it, but then I read this:

System Restore is not intended for backing up personal files, so it cannot help you recover a personal file that has been deleted or damaged. You should still back up your personal files and important data on a regular basis using a backup program.

If you do a recovery, your "My Documents" should be intact... if you do a full destructive recovery, it wipes your computer clean.

andyhui01 · September 25th, 2006, 05:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Jacobfox

bummer, dude. that's why it makes sense to have a raid 1 config. except it's slow and a waste of space.

hmm... raid helps in situations like this? My dads server at home has RAID2 and it will only help when the HD dies and not when files dissapear.

and UKD, you're not the only one who has done that images/smilies/biggrin.gif

Jacobfox · September 25th, 2006, 07:36 AM

Raid 1 is mirrored drives. This could easily be a drive problem, so it's likely backed up on the other drive

Aardvark · September 25th, 2006, 08:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cvg

I was organizing the files/folders on my hard drive when I noticed my entire Video folder was gone (full of TV shows like Top Gear). I panicked! Thankfully I have an external backup drive but I haven't updated it in a few months. That means I lost the first three seasons of Top Gear (which I recently downloaded)...at least everything else was still there.

images/smilies/bangin.gif

Moral of the story? MAKE FREQUENT BACKUPS!

It's not nice calling yourself an idiot images/smilies/ohmy.gif

Just say you've been foolish or something.

Sebastian · September 25th, 2006, 10:15 AM

Reminds of the time when I was merging two partitions with Partition Magic.
About half way it said 'an error had occured' with error number and if I could please click 'Ok'. Did't have much choise obviously and everything was gone.

Now that's what I call magic.

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YF19pilot · September 25th, 2006, 11:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GPriest

Quote:

Originally Posted by cvg

Quote:

Originally Posted by matt_shaw

can't you just use that system restore thing in windows? that's why i do every time i mess something up

I thought about it, but then I read this:

System Restore is not intended for backing up personal files, so it cannot help you recover a personal file that has been deleted or damaged. You should still back up your personal files and important data on a regular basis using a backup program.

If you do a recovery, your "My Documents" should be intact... if you do a full destructive recovery, it wipes your computer clean.

Windows System Restore is more or less a way to restore a faulty program (or your computer) back to the state it was in some time ago. So if your computer starts acting up, and it might be due to a bad program or maybe adware/spyware, System Restore can reset your computer to where it was before the programs were installed or began acting up.

System Restore will not restore any files that were permenatly deleted.

Good example: I once did System Restore on my computer. I got Flight Sim reinstalled, but I didn't get all my custom aircraft back...

TechZ · September 25th, 2006, 02:19 PM

Everything backed up here, regularly images/smilies/smile.gif

IVIaster · September 25th, 2006, 02:33 PM

Yes, You are a idiot

Topher · September 25th, 2006, 03:00 PM

yeah, got autobackup program and it automaticly backs up my documents and emails and stuff whenever a file changes. Saved me a few times

The story goes i was burning arrested development episodes and i copied them from my main computer to my laptop because i was burning them on that then after i had burnt them i went to delete the episodes but instead of clicking the arrested development folder i clicked the "episodes" folder which had all of the episodes on my laptop in it, so it went and delted them..about 35ish gig worth including Curb your enthusiasm season 5 episodes, Ncis Season 3, House Season 1, Two Guys and a girl Season 1-4 and the worse one 16gig of Mythbusters episodes that was every single one ah well at least i got season 3 still on my harddrive, and i got heaps of room free now, but thats not relaly ap roblem. .it was like a year ago tho.. il just buy the dvds.. bought curb, redownloaded ncis, bought house, re got two guys and a girl..

Anyway i dont store stuff on the laptop anymore, keep it all on the main computer and copy it over if i need to aslong as i still have it on this computer. It doesnt get backed up that much but i just trust the harddrive, plus i burn all the shows i really like onto dvds so its all good.

screen shot of the current episodes folder.. notice the my computer and my networkplaces icons (car engine, car gear stick)

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/4127/image2bq6.jpg

BlaRo · September 25th, 2006, 04:29 PM

Anybody have trouble with Windows Media Player? I pushed the Delete button on my keyboard thinking it would remove a bunch of files from the library, not the FREAKING COMPUTER, and half my music disappeared. It was a PITA getting it all back.

Then, I was ripping a CD and it choked itslef on one song, which damaged the CD permanently so the song won't play on a CD player. images/smilies/mad.gif

September 25th, 2006, 03:26 AM	#1
cvrefugee Joined: Aug 16th, 2004 Last Online: 10:17 AM Location: Corona, CA Age: 28 Posts: 3,378 Car: 2005 Scion xB Rep Power: 56	I am an idiot I was organizing the files/folders on my hard drive when I noticed my entire Video folder was gone (full of TV shows like Top Gear). I panicked! Thankfully I have an external backup drive but I haven't updated it in a few months. That means I lost the first three seasons of Top Gear (which I recently downloaded)...at least everything else was still there. Moral of the story? MAKE FREQUENT BACKUPS!

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Sebastian Joined: Aug 3rd, 2005 Last Online: November 20th, 2008 Location: The Netherlands Age: 22 Posts: 91 Car: Mk2 Swift GS Rep Power: 14	Reminds of the time when I was merging two partitions with Partition Magic. About half way it said 'an error had occured' with error number and if I could please click 'Ok'. Did't have much choise obviously and everything was gone. Now that's what I call magic.

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Topher Joined: Feb 3rd, 2006 Last Online: June 1st, 2008 Location: Brisbane, Australia Age: 21 Posts: 225 Rep Power: 0	yeah, got autobackup program and it automaticly backs up my documents and emails and stuff whenever a file changes. Saved me a few times The story goes i was burning arrested development episodes and i copied them from my main computer to my laptop because i was burning them on that then after i had burnt them i went to delete the episodes but instead of clicking the arrested development folder i clicked the "episodes" folder which had all of the episodes on my laptop in it, so it went and delted them..about 35ish gig worth including Curb your enthusiasm season 5 episodes, Ncis Season 3, House Season 1, Two Guys and a girl Season 1-4 and the worse one 16gig of Mythbusters episodes that was every single one ah well at least i got season 3 still on my harddrive, and i got heaps of room free now, but thats not relaly ap roblem. .it was like a year ago tho.. il just buy the dvds.. bought curb, redownloaded ncis, bought house, re got two guys and a girl.. Anyway i dont store stuff on the laptop anymore, keep it all on the main computer and copy it over if i need to aslong as i still have it on this computer. It doesnt get backed up that much but i just trust the harddrive, plus i burn all the shows i really like onto dvds so its all good. screen shot of the current episodes folder.. notice the my computer and my networkplaces icons (car engine, car gear stick)

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