strange, sad but true

patrickv

patrickv

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I made this thread cause there's this one question i want to ask.
CAN A WORD DOCUMENT VANISH INTO THIN AIR ?

My answer will be yes.YES it can.
because it happened to me.
My dad and i worked on a document for 2 weeks and i saved it on my desktop.
We haven't work on it for some time cause dad did not have any updated info... just yesterday he told me to print a copy cause he will submit to a colleague and to my surprise the folder was gone.I didn't even notice the empty spacing between icons.

I thought i moved it on one on my other drives when i didn't see it but no.
I tried recovering but the only files [getdataback] and [ontrack] found was some old docs since july.. which was deleted and still readable.
since the recovery didn't work i tried restoring my pc to earlier August. I found the folder, but not the file.. i moved the system restore, this time at the start of august but to no avail... after hours of recovery (format, raw,advance,deleted) i gave up and i had to tell dad the file is gone....
I won't elaborate on his reactions but the bottom line is... YES files can vanish in thin air.. and computers are sh*t... :mad:
 
There are two kinds of people in this world. People who back up important data and people that wish they had.

hard lesson to learn but it is a good one. I am dealing with my cousin's computer now that has so many viruses on it, I can't even get it to boot, but all of her college graduation and her new born baby pictures on there, of course with no back ups.
 
tlarkin said:
There are two kinds of people in this world. People who back up important data and people that wish they had.
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This is not a backup issue cause my desktop (i mean the rest of the files) are intact....

tlarkin said:
hard lesson to learn but it is a good one.
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have you ever seen my old thread about 2 of my sata drives dying ?
I don't know how i can learn anything from this.. why is this the only file gone ?
anyways :(
 
Yes, this is a backup issue... if you would have had a backup of the file, you wouldn't be in your current situation - you could just simply restore a backup of the file. And yes, files can suddenly vanish or mutate, I've come to realise that this is one of the features Windows comes with, and I haven't found a way to turn it off, apart from scrapping my Windows installation and getting Linux. The lesson you're supposed to learn: be paranoid. I have all my stuff saved on at least two devices, usually three - my lappy, desktop, portable HD, and I usually save number more copies of those files on other machines as well, depending on how paranoid I am at the moment as well as how important the work is. And I didn't drop this practice even though switched to Linux, though I've never had Linux crap out on me like this, no OS protects you from hardware failure...
 
hackapelite said:
Yes, this is a backup issue... if you would have had a backup of the file, you wouldn't be in your current situation
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if it's a backup issues why are the rest of the computer ok ?

since the recovery didn't work i tried restoring my pc to earlier August. I found the folder, but not the file.

This is what i said in my first post.. How can the file still not be there back in august when it was created in august ?
Nopes for me this is not a backup issue.This is a windows issue.
why this one file, and not the other ?
I know if i did backup the file i'd be ok but never have i lost data (much less 1 file) in thin air. All my data loss ive experience was hard drives crash.

hackapelite said:
no OS protects you from hardware failure...
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i know but this is not hardware related
 
if it's a backup issues why are the rest of the computer ok ?
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Recovery? System restore does not backup your personal files, if that's what you mean... and software for recovering deleted files is no form of backup... if you lose a file and have no copies of it, that would (to me, anyways) mean that, well, it is a backup issue... ore more like an issue of not having backups?

i know but this is not hardware related
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I know, I was just saying this so that no-one would get the dea that Linux makes your data invlunerable, invincble, or indestructible, just because I have never experienced any data loss/such on Linux.
 
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