Please help

[tedfoxxx]

Hi everyone,

I just plugged my memory stick into my laptop, only to find that about 1500 words worth of essay (roughly half of what I had written) has disappeard from a Word document. All of what I wrote using the university's library computers yesterday is gone, despite the fact that it had saved and was there yesterday evening.

So any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Blue Maniac]

Have you tried plugging your memory stick into Tommy Wright's Monster Munch, then reading SuperScout's list?

 

[tedfoxxx]

Have you tried plugging your memory stick into Tommy Wright's Monster Munch, then reading SuperScout's list?

**** off this is serious.

 

[tedfoxxx]

Wait no its cool, popped the little fella in the xbox and it all came back.

 

[Blue Maniac]

**** off this is serious.

:icon_lol::icon_lol::icon_lol:

 

[Macky]

Wait no its cool, popped the little fella in the xbox and it all came back.

Before you do anything else, copy the file and save it onto another device as a backup.
If a file doesn't exist in at least two places, it might as well not exist at all.

 

[tedfoxxx]

Before you do anything else, copy the file and save it onto another device as a backup.
If a file doesn't exist in at least two places, it might as well not exist at all.

I had backed up the 1500 I had done over the weekend and monday, the work thats gone was done on a uni computer yesterday and has just disappered out of the word document, while the rest has remained.

 

[FryattFox]

popped the little fella in the xbox

Perverted ****.

 

[Jeff]

If a file doesn't exist in at least two places, it might as well not exist at all.

Yup. I lost a lot of stuff a couple of months ago when a SSD died. I've learned my lesson. I now use Skydrive and everything I save to my documents is automatically backed up to the cloud.

I've also set up daily backups on my web server, after realising my last back up of TB was over 6 months old.

 

[FryattFox]

I've also set up daily backups on my web server, after realising my last back up of TB was over 6 months old.

:icon_eek:

OMG! Think of what could have been lost!! All of the....er....and the...hmmm...

 

[tedfoxxx]

Logged onto a library computer with it and its back, any idea why its saving on my memory stick but not loading on my laptop. (I know very little about computers sadly)

 

[Macky]

Logged onto a library computer with it and its back, any idea why its saving on my memory stick but not loading on my laptop. (I know very little about computers sadly)

Are you sure it's opening the correct file on your laptop? Or is it opening a recent version of it saved locally on the laptop?

 

[tedfoxxx]

Are you sure it's opening the correct file on your laptop? Or is it opening a recent version of it saved locally on the laptop?

May be the later, either way its sorted now. Thanks for offering some genuine support rather than some Tommy Wright based nonsense.

 

[spionfox]

Before you do anything else, copy the file and save it onto another device as a backup.

Install DropBox Ted, there's a link in my sig :icon_bigg

I now use Skydrive.....

No affiliate link Webbo? You do surprise me :icon_wink

 

[Mawsley]

Use a typewriter.

 

[Macky]

Install DropBox Ted, there's a link in my sig :icon_bigg

Don't be such a whore

 

[Jeff]

Install DropBox Ted, there's a link in my sig :icon_bigg

I tried a few (Box, Dropbox, Google Drive etc) and Skydrive was the only one that would do everything I wanted on my PC and mobile. You also get more space than you do with Dropbox.

 

[Mawsley]

I tried a few (Box, Dropbox, Google Drive etc) and Skydrive was the only one that would do everything I wanted on my PC and mobile. You also get more space than you do with Dropbox.

What would that be?

 

[Jeff]

What would that be?

Automatic syncing of the My Documents folder on my PC, and a decent Android app.

 

[Mawsley]

Automatic syncing of the My Documents folder on my PC, and a decent Android app.

A-ha.