Yesterday when I woke up and was planning how to organize my work for the day I did not factor in the possibility that other plans had already been made, just not by me. I arrive at the computer lab and unpack all of my things. After checking my email i plug my flash drive in to start work on project II. Nothing pops up on the desktop, i think that maybe i just didn't plug it in firmly enough and try again, still no icon. I start to freak out a little but reassure myself that it is just this particular computer it's not working on.
I ask the lab monitor if he has been having a problem with this particular computer, he says no. I frantically try two more computers but nothing. Now i am freaking out because in an ideal world I would have everything that i have created over the last couple of days backed up somewhere, but this is not the case. The lab monitor tries his flash drive just to prove that it is not to any fault of the computers in the lab, his icon pops up right away.
I look up and ask why? what did i do to desereve my day starting this way. Tears start to well up as i realize due to my inabilitliy to consistently back my work up that i will have to start all over for the magazine layout. Fortunately i thought to check the computer i had last used to work on this project in the lab and was able to recover some files that were still in the trash. I had to go to Best Buy and they basically said they weren't sure what happened but they had to wipe it clean and re-format it. As of now it seems to be working fine, and although i lost a lot of stuff nothing was irreplaceable. Last night after a rough start to the day i went home and backed up everything from my flash drive to my home computer. Let this be a lesson to all without actually having to go through that horrible heart dropping feeling of it actually happening to you. Always back your work up.
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Eeek. Been there. Flash drives are great, much more reliable than zip drives, but they can still malfunction. I back everything up on an external hard drive. I don't even trust my computer since I've had one too many computer crashes that forced me to wipe out my system.
Hi Betsy,
What a nightmare. I'm so glad that your were able to recover some of your work. Truly, that is a good lesson for everyone. I have had Murphy's Law prevail so many times, that I probably back it up too many places.
Hang inThere!
Pisces
You were lucky, retriving from the trash, your story could have turned out much worst. I know it is not the best thing, but I back my work up on another jump drive. I am always fearful of losing the drive itself.
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