2 classes worth of work gone

[Bobtheduck]

WE were told our Max work could just be saved to the computers... I didn't have anything to back it up with... Big mistake...

The computer I was using... Gone... As are like half the computers in the class... They were just removed with no explanation... Probably figured "The class isn't full enough of students to keep that many computers..."

2 classtimes, probably at least 5 hours worth of work, gone...

Excuse me while I go numb...

[Agent Anderson]

http://computers.search.ebay.com/make_Flash-Memory-Drives_W0QQcatrefZC6QQfasiZ1QQfgtpZQQfposZQ5AIPQ2fPostalQQfromZR2QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ3QQftrtZ1QQftrvZ1QQlopgZQQpriceZ1QQsacatZ51071QQsadisZ200QQsaprchiZ10QQsaprcloZQQsargnZQ2d1QQsascsZ2QQsaslcZ2QQsatitleZQ2dmakeQQsbrbinZtQQsbrftogZ1QQsofocusZbs

Just be careful about buying a generic brand one. I bought a 4GB piece of hong kong USB crap online that had constant corruption problems.



I suppose you can be thankful it wasn't 13/14ths of a semster's work.

Also, always remember to keep things in perspective with eternity in mind.

[Bobtheduck]

Oh, this isn't the most work I've ever lost, but I don't have max at home, wheras most of the things I lose are word processing files... I only have in class to work on this...

[mitsuki lover]

This is the new excuse of the 21st Century:My computer deleted my homework.
Though 5 hours is a tremedous lot of work to get deleted.
Times like that I have a tendency to want to kick something or throw things around or just bang my head on the wall.

[Doubleshadow]

That's a pain, but a friend experienced a worse one.

My friend was in a media class that had four major paper due throughout the semester, each one a quarter of the grade. They were big, needed at least six sources, I forget how many pages. He was so proud of it because it was an opinion paper that allowed him to rant, and he had spent two months on it. He spent an all nighter in the school library typing it up, saving it on the networks V drive every half hour when the power gave out at six am when he was putting in the finishing touches. The power black out knocked and the V drive and he lost his entire paper. The whole thing. He told me, "I realized I had two choices: I could go home shower, and sleep until my class at 10 and ask for an extension, or I could go to Wal-Mart and buy a six of Red Bull and just stay up."
He chose the Red Bull -yes, all six- which is why the conversation that led to me learning all this started with, "Hey man, you look tired."

[Mr. SmartyPants]

That's a pain, but a friend experienced a worse one.

My friend was in a media class that had four major paper due throughout the semester, each one a quarter of the grade. They were big, needed at least six sources, I forget how many pages. He was so proud of it because it was an opinion paper that allowed him to rant, and he had spent two months on it. He spent an all nighter in the school library typing it up, saving it on the networks V drive every half hour when the power gave out at six am when he was putting in the finishing touches. The power black out knocked and the V drive and he lost his entire paper. The whole thing. He told me, "I realized I had two choices: I could go home shower, and sleep until my class at 10 and ask for an extension, or I could go to Wal-Mart and buy a six of Red Bull and just stay up."
He chose the Red Bull -yes, all six- which is why the conversation that led to me learning all this started with, "Hey man, you look tired."

Woah. What did he get on it?

[Hakaii]

Oh man. 5 hours worth of work? I would have hunted the poor suckers who took those computers down. I'll be praying for you. by the way, try to get an external hard drive, (like the ones that hold 80 Gigs. I've even seen one that holds a Terrabyte!!!) they are starting to go down in price these days.

[mitsuki lover]

If it were me I would be drop kicking the computer into the nearest trash can.

[Yahshua]

Yes the pain of owning a computer.

[mechana2015]

Oh man. 5 hours worth of work? I would have hunted the poor suckers who took those computers down. I'll be praying for you. by the way, try to get an external hard drive, (like the ones that hold 80 Gigs. I've even seen one that holds a Terrabyte!!!) they are starting to go down in price these days.

Unfortunately these can be heavy to haul around, and most HDs of that size require an external power source, something that may or may not be readily available in school computer labs. A better call might be a Firelight firewire HD, but they are both expensive and require a firewire port to be availiable on the computer, and (surprise surprise) these arn't necessarily readily availiable either.

Depending on the size of the files, flash drives can be found rather cheap up to about 2 GIGs and slightly more expensive up to 4 or 8 Gigs.

I personally would save to computer at school, save to a flash, then back the flash up to a home comp and/or an external HDD.

I'm getting to the point where I may need to carry a small external HD soon due to the sheer volume of data that I need to work with now.

[mitsuki lover]

This is one good thing about having a laptop,they're so much easier to carry around with you.