I'm having a meltdown please help!

Wow.. Big gamble.. Bigger than gambling with money.. Least you can get money back.

As said, surely you didn't MOVE the file from pc to sky drive? Default is copy
 
Jonny L said:
So guys, I'm having a major panic, its the final deadline for my masters dissertation today and I've come in early to the library to check it, print it off and bind it before work.

Anyway, cut to now. The file is saved on skydrive which is saying its corrupt! I have downloaded said file and still no luck. At the minute I've got a friend who is an IT professional looking at it.

But if this is unsuccessful is there anything else I can do?

Thank you for any help!
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Drop box archives different versions of files if you log into it, maybe you can do the same with skydrive? Try looking here: http://winsupersite.com/article/windows8/skydrive-tip-recover-deleted-modified-files-143623
 
horseunderwater said:
Talk to your tutor explain to the university what has happend they night give you time to sort this out
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Mine would have said and I'm sure most others would to something along the lines of "You penis, have a fail"
Anyway surely if you've got it on skydrive you must have a local copy somewhere as well.
 
crashplan + skydrive is my current backup solution as well as a local backup. For the OP though there's probably at least one temp version on his home PC as it's a word document, some might have been deleted and need to be recovered first though assuming his home version isn't knackered too.

Regardless if he goes home I'd be ensuring the computer didn't try to sync to skydrive, router off, network cable unplugged or wireless disable switch flicked on laptop before I push the power button, just in case it syncs down the corrupt version. It shouldn't, but why risk it!
 
Halfmad said:
Regardless if he goes home I'd be ensuring the computer didn't try to sync to skydrive, router off, network cable unplugged or wireless disable switch flicked on laptop before I push the power button, just in case it syncs down the corrupt version. It shouldn't, but why risk it!
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Even then, assuming he hasn't disabled system restore/previous versions, then he'll be able to recover yesterdays.
 
Hi guys,

Cheers for all the replies.

I know its my fault for not having an up to date back up.

I had my separate chapters saved in different files, however, I've done some editing and additions to the finished product since then. I'm currently trying to piece it all back together and re-add as much content as possible.

I work full time (~60 hours a week) as well as uni, so this has been tough. Hopefully I'll pull it off. It's not got to be in until 16.00, so should have it done in the next couple of hours and in ok.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

Conclusion: I'm a proper wally!
 
Every time I saved my dissertation I saved it on my hardrive, external USB and e-mailed it to myself. I had 50+ files/emails by the time I finished.

Hope you can recover it.
 
For backup I always encrypt and then send important files to 4 different G-Mail accounts, quick and easy :-)
The chance of losing 4 different accounts is extremely slim and it also means I can access the files anywhere I have internet access.
 
haz_pro said:
I hope for your sake you have a copy.

Anything important that is kept digitally NEEDS a backup.

Once you, hopefully, retrieve the work I would suggest maybe using a software such as Fbackup to create automatic backups.

If you are interested in one solution, I do the following... I have my work stored on my main PC HDD, which is automatically backed up to dropbox. It is also backed up on a hourly basis to another HDD in my pc, and then an external USB when I choose to manually.
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Sounds good but how often do you test recovering those backups?
 
C.R.A.Z.Y said:
For backup I always encrypt and then send important files to 4 different G-Mail accounts, quick and easy :-)
The chance of losing 4 different accounts is extremely slim and it also means I can access the files anywhere I have internet access.
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What if GMail goes down? ;)
 
When I wrote my dissertation I had 4 backups on my PC (on separatedrives), 3 on DVDs, 2 online and one on each of my housemate's PCs.
 
When I wrote my dissertation I had 10 backups on my PC (on separate drives), 12 on CD-ROM, 6 on DVD, 14 on Blu-rays, I got my Sony Minidiscs out of the loft and copied 24 backups onto those. I put one on a USB hard drive and strapped it to my cat, uploaded 6 backups to Dropbox and 11 to Skydrive, and I backed each of these up 7 times a day and got up during the night every 4 minutes to back those up again.

And you tell the kids of today that, and they won't believe you.
 
Kiyoshi said:
When I wrote my dissertation I had 10 backups on my PC (on separate drives), 12 on CD-ROM, 6 on DVD, 14 on Blu-rays, I got my Sony Minidiscs out of the loft and copied 24 backups onto those. I put one on a USB hard drive and strapped it to my cat, uploaded 6 backups to Dropbox and 11 to Skydrive, and I backed each of these up 7 times a day and got up during the night every 4 minutes to back those up again.

And you tell the kids of today that, and they won't believe you.
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Pfft, that's just shoddy IMO, you're just begging to lose all of your work with that many holes in a system.
 
Gmail is my backup for any small to medium size files.

Also, anything particularly important will be on at least one additional portable device.
 
Kiyoshi said:
When I wrote my dissertation I had 10 backups on my PC (on separate drives), 12 on CD-ROM, 6 on DVD, 14 on Blu-rays, I got my Sony Minidiscs out of the loft and copied 24 backups onto those. I put one on a USB hard drive and strapped it to my cat, uploaded 6 backups to Dropbox and 11 to Skydrive, and I backed each of these up 7 times a day and got up during the night every 4 minutes to back those up again.

And you tell the kids of today that, and they won't believe you.
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I backed mine up to 10 different SD cards which I swallowed each day to ensure they were always with me. I also bought a satellite to carry my backup tapes in orbit to ensure their safety in the event of the end of the world. I had my PC set up with 20 1TB drives in a RAID 1 configuration in case of simultaneous drive failure and I would regularly print the files out in binary and etch it into stone for future reference.

You just can't be too careful.
 
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This is why I use Dropbox.
 
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