I am in deep ****. Help please.

I'm guessing it was his laptop that his girlfriend uses for things? He never said it belonged to her?

I've been in that situation in the past. Her computer was broken, I had a laptop, so she used it.

People are very quick to judge today. Run Rybo! :p
 
Lol I have been here a long time. I'm use to people reading into things wrongly, then making things up :p

Laptop is my MSI GX660R. She was sat next to me before I formatted and pointed out which folder I need to save of hers.

After formatting she checked her files to think 2 have disappeared and turned into shortcuts for some reason. This point I thought I buggered up the copying process.

I then check where the shortcuts was directed to and they was directed to the file they was in, which lead to me thinking i definitely Ballsed it up.

I start data recovery and post here asking for help.

I then ask Mrs where the original templates are and she gives me a flash stick. We then realise she accidentally saved those 2 files to the flash stick rather than to her work folder.

Hope this helps the confused. :p

At the time she was a nobhead and accepted this. Also made up for it so I forgive her.
 
So there are some reports she's writing for her course that it would be very bad to lose.

Not only are they not backed up, she didn't even know whether they were on a usb stick or on your laptop? That's really poor. It's not like "laptops break sometimes" is a difficult concept.
 
Glad it's sorted. I was starting to feel for you but at the same time couldn't thinking that she would have been to blame for not having backups in the first place.

The amount of people who come to me asking for document or image retrieval when their HDD fails or their memory stick breaks, including a few students with dissertation due within days. You might want to ask her how she would feel if she lost that stick now she knows just how volatile her data is? There's no excuse now days with the likes of dropbox, Skydrive etc which are all free to extent.. A valuable lesson learnt me thinks ;)

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JonJ678 said:
So there are some reports she's writing for her course that it would be very bad to lose.

Not only are they not backed up, she didn't even know whether they were on a usb stick or on your laptop? That's really poor. It's not like "laptops break sometimes" is a difficult concept.
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She knows how to turn a lappy on, go onto word, turn lappy off (which she still forgets to do a lot of the time).

First course that they have given her that involves using a PC of some sort. She is into handbags, hair and shoes, not PC's. Has no interest at all in PC's/Tech stuff.

Guess this is her first lesson to make sure her work is right and stored properly and safely and not give me a mini heart attack thinking i have lost her course work.
 
There's a difference between "interested in tech stuff" and realising that "tech stuff breaks".

It's hard to imagine she has no experience whatsoever with losing anything or having anything break. Cars break. Shoes break. Therefore laptop might break. If that conceptual leap is beyond her, I hope she's hot.

Not feeling a whole lot of sympathy. My lass has no interest in computers whatsoever, but is bright enough to understand the phrase "single point of failure". I think dogs might be bright enough to grasp that one.
 
That might be overstepping the line a tad... :rolleyes:

You can't go around calling peoples other halves thick just because that is your interpretation of one sentence.

Borderline personal attack on someone you have never met based on your assumptions. Yay internet! :p
 
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dodged a bullet there, bet she felt pretty damn relived when she realised, i think my so would have killed me before she realised :p
 
Again, OcUK at its finest :p

In the 7 months of being at a company she is at, she has made it up to team leader and took a pay rise of £9k on top of what she started there on.

They have paid a few grand to put her on these courses as they want her higher up in the company with the qualifications to go with it. These courses will no doubt learn her the basic skills for using a computer.

Far from 'thick', just ignorant when it comes to tech.

Don't be so quick to judge. O and yes, she is a hot blonde! My little milf.
 
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Lareon said:
dodged a bullet there, bet she felt pretty damn relived when she realised, i think my so would have killed me before she realised :p
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I was just thinking 'this is going to cost me a lot of money and time' :p

I was the one who felt relieved, bugger her and her misplacing of files :p
 
Fair enough. With any luck she's learned from this experience. I don't think many people worry about losing documents until they're gone. I wish you the best of luck.
 
Rybo89 said:
I was the one who felt relieved, bugger her and her misplacing of files :p
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I bet you are relieved upon buggering! :D

I'm just thankful that a lot of my work is paper based and the only stuff I have on computer is typed up notes - which are backed up by time machine*. :cool:

*A Mac and time capsule makes backups without her even knowing. A good investment for those who don't back up as it takes it out of their hands :p
 
Sign her up to Skydrive!

Skydrive + USB backup + backup copy on email.

Cut out the name calling guys, it's dumb and uncalled for.


Rybo, one thing I always do before a format, is take a Macrium Reflect image of the drive. Store this on some extra storage you have somewhere, just incase you get an 'oh ####!' moment :o
 
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Yep, it's hard not to recommend SkyDrive. It's free and works brilliantly, especially since they integrated it into Explorer. Straightforward, too.
 
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