I'm having a meltdown please help!

LOL, my mum had almost the same issue. Instead she didn't save it.. this was after having told her on multiple occasions to back it up multiple times in separate locations.
After much searching around her hard drive I found a temporary file word had stored, it was up to date.
 
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A cloud storage solution should never ever be you final backup! Or even a way to transfer files. Good old external hard drive at home and a USB pen to travel is always the way to go.
 
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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haha :D
 
I thought by the time you get to final year and something as huge as a dissertation, that you will have finally learned, after a few years and many all nighters that its clearly not something you can leave until the last minute.
 
Nexus said:
I thought by the time you get to final year and something as huge as a dissertation, that you will have finally learned, after a few years and many all nighters that its clearly not something you can leave until the last minute.
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Not true, 48hours from start to finish and netted me a 2:1 I'd class that as last minute.
Sensible no, possible definitely.
 
48hours straight to do a dissertation?
Must have killed you!

I worked on mine non stop for three weeks!
 
Nexus said:
48hours straight to do a dissertation?
Must have killed you!

I worked on mine non stop for three weeks!
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It was caffeine fuelled! I always work best under that sort of pressure but that was cutting it close even for me :o
 
I always email important word files to myself (hotmail) along with memory stick backups.

OP is also guilty of leaving final editing and printing to the day it is due in... Oh well, I suppose we have all done it!
 
tom_e said:
Not true, 48hours from start to finish and netted me a 2:1 I'd class that as last minute.
Sensible no, possible definitely.
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Crazy! :eek:
I worked on the technical aspects of my dissertation for more than four months, and then wrote it over the course of two weeks!

Then again, I did net a nice and happy High 1st (89%) for my efforts :D
 
J.B said:
Backing ups for wimps, live life on the edge you bunch of old ladies!
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This x1000! I deliberately save all my work on a 15 year old hard drive that makes suspicious clicking noises and don't make any backups either. It keeps me pin sharp and alert, which in turn means my assignments have a certain breathless, succinct, brilliance about them.

OP will score 100% - guaranteed.
 
Curio said:
This x1000! I deliberately save all my work on a 15 year old hard drive that makes suspicious clicking noises and don't make any backups either. It keeps me pin sharp and alert, which in turn means my assignments have a certain breathless, succinct, brilliance about them.

OP will score 100% - guaranteed.
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I did that... once...

As part of a project for my course on file recovery :D
 
I think the OP has grasped he should have made a back up, however, can anyone actually help in the file recovery like he initially asked for? ie if he emails it to someone, or someone suggests a prog that may help?
 
ivrytwr3 said:
I think the OP has grasped he should have made a back up, however, can anyone actually help in the file recovery like he initially asked for? ie if he emails it to someone, or someone suggests a prog that may help?
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Your first visit to GD, by any chance? :)
 
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