Duh!

[gilmoure.livejournal.com]

College Grad Student Intern: I have a Word file, that I never saved and my computer was shut down over night with a pushed update. Where is the file stored and what was it named?

Me: Forehead, this is the desk. Desk, this is my forehead. Ow! Ow! Ow!

I'm used to people wondering about temp files and such but in this case, this is a grad student who's interning in the cluster computing department, who's likely been using a computer for most of her life. WTF? Flounder, you screwed up, you trusted us!

Comments

[ihateemo.livejournal.com]

I have no sympathy for those people.

My wife is a photographer with about 15GB worth of photos stored on a secondary hard drive in our crappy desktop PC. I have told her time and time and time again that she needs to back those things up (I even bought a DVD burner so she doesn't have to spend hours with eight billion CDs) but she's still steadfastly refusing to do it. I have told her, in no uncertain terms, that if something were to happen to that drive I would *not* feel sorry for her.

I mean, geez. I back up my warez. Why can't she back up photos she'd be devastated about losing? :)

[ihateemo.livejournal.com]

That's more effort than my wife deserves. I have my own shit to worry about. :D

[gilmoure.livejournal.com]

I mostly did it for myself, so that I can sit down at any machine and it's mine!

[darkblade1.livejournal.com]

How do you not save a file your working on? I swear, I save crap like 4 to 5 times if I'm working on a document. You'll never have to worry about me as a college student asking for your help. :)

[jjjiii]

A: It was named Document1.doc and it is stored in volatile RAM. Sorry.

[gilmoure.livejournal.com]

I always tell them to start a new document by saving it first, setting the name and location. But do they listen? Nooooo!

[thecrazyfinn.livejournal.com]

Only 15GB? She should count herself lucky, that's a weekend of mild shooting for me.

Of course, all of my stuff is backed up.

[darkblade1.livejournal.com]

When will they ever learn?

[hisamishness.livejournal.com]

I have a large external USB drive that I periodically run a sync script to. My entire images folder gets duplicated...

Maybe you can do something similar but no tell her about it until her drive craps out and she's going batshit over her lost images? Hell - justify it by using it to back up YOUR files... much, much superior to DVD backups in regard to speed and convenience.

[hisamishness.livejournal.com]

Um, it WASN'T stored, you grad student PUTZ!

[floatingpencil.livejournal.com]

Correction, you had a Word file.

Though congratulations on the mindless optimism!

[fiannnachruinne.livejournal.com]

Well theoretically Word should have saved it automatically. Assuming that feature is turned on which it should be by default (I think). Still, reminds me of the call my coworker got the other day. EU was calling for help recovering a Word document. He had been working on a document for hours and I guess he lost power or something. Anyways, Word comes up with the automatic recovery and for whatever reason he had told it to delete it, not really sure why. So he calls us for help. Sorry dude. Hope you remember what you wrote in it.