So yesterday I had my young doctoral life 'flashed' before my eyes. By 'flash' I mean that my 'flash' drive decided to crash on me. Yes, I learned a hard lesson by NOT working directly from my flash drive and to stop being lazy and save to my hard drive and then save the final work to my flash instead. Well, I wasn't doing this. I had over two quarters of work saved to my flash and a host of research papers that I had either reviewed or was planning to review. NONE of it was backed-up. I felt the rush of panic, the tightening pressure of my chest and my head felt like it was going to explode. I couldn't breathe, and didn't know what to do. I gathered myself, after a short while, and gently turned off my computer.
Today, after consulting with Sarkis at the ODCE Conference, I downloaded a demo version of a recovery software. With much, and I do mean MUCH jubilation, I was able to recover all of my files from my flash drive. I quickly saved everything to my hard drive and formatted my flash. Now, I quickly save anything I plan to work on straight to the desktop previous to doing anything! My flash drive is now a traveling file tool only, as the string that I use to hang it around my neck was nearly going to be used to hang me for real.
What a painful lesson. Best learned at the brink of disaster.
3 comments:
This is absolutely a great read! You are quite the writer! I am glad you've recovered everything!
Lani
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Good job - luckily you were able to recover your files. Yes, use flash drives as a traveling and backup medium only. Don't forget that your hard drive can crash too, so make backup copies of important files often!!!
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