What was Recovered
Many of my Word files were recovered, Not all; I keep discovering that something I know I had is missing. But, thanks to the service people at Canadian Computer on Speers in Oakville, I have much to be grateful for.
- most of my applications were recovered, so I have the work set-up I'm used to.
- many of my Word files were recovered but not the files from the course that I worked hardest on. I might be able to salvage some information from the histories of pages in the course wiki, but ...
- my old poetry is gone and I only have some of it in hard copy.
- and there's more that I will discover missing in the future, I suppose.
Some Replacements
- I've downloaded QuickImage again, so I can easily turn my screenshots into jpegs for uploading to Flickr
- I've downloaded Audacity and Lame so I can make MP3s
- I'm going to get my podcasts set up in iTunes again
Lost Forever
- my pictures. Some were in Flickr, but I use that mainly to provide images for my blogs. Many of my personal pictures are gone.
- As I mentioned earlier, much of my older poetry is gone, and much of my carefully collected and built course materials are gone.
- My Address Book and all my email files are gone
Lessons Learned
- Backup, backup, backup!!!
- At least for now, I'm forwarding all my email addresses to my gmail account, so I can store my addresses and the messages I save online.
- Using online services, like del.icio.us for bookmarking and Bloglines for collecting blog urls, is not just social, it's a safety move. What I had online, I still have.
What I've Added
- I now have a 120 GB hard drive, bigger than the one that crashed.
- I now have a 640 MB RAM, much bigger than I used to have.
So I've learned a lot, more about the mechanics of computers, more about the wise use of my computer (did I mention you should backup your files?) and that my computer is my external brain, but that I can rebuild and repair it when accidents happen.
A Dark Note
I was going to add a photo of my computer that I had stored in Flickr, but Flickr appears to be closed down for now. Even online is not a complete safety net. Backup!
2 comments:
Back up! Back up! Back up! Seems you got a good lesson and thank you so much for sharing your learned lesson with us. Sometimes back I had a same problem like you but its sad that I don�t have a clear idea how to back up all the lost files but nevertheless I�m so thankful to HDRC for their excellent services .at first I was so depressed that I don�t have a hope to get my data back which includes all my college works like question bank, answer sheets and a regular diary I used to keep. One of my friends gave me a card of HDRC and I went there straight. They got wonderful software which gave me a complete satisfaction of their job. I have their sites www.hdrconline.com if u like to visit.
Cheers!
Happy me
Thanks for the nice post!
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