> Thanks for your responses, guys. > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Twayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Do NOT use that drive if you can help it. Don't even use the >> computer if it's stored on the boot drive. That minimizes the >> chances of overwriting the deleted file, which does still exist; >> it's just not mapped to. The more you use the computer the more >> chance the file will be overwritten. > > Well, sadly, at least on client machines with sensitive data, I have a > bad habit of using Eraser to do 26 passes of random data over deleted > files when I empty the recycle bin, which just about kills that > option, I think. > > Unfortunately, all hope is lost for that file. I checked the temporary > files on the backup drive, none of them were that document. I emptied > the files in the recycle bin before backing up, nothing is there > either. > > On the bright side, turns out things go much faster the second time > around, and it gives me a chance to rethink and reorganize some ofa > the original document a little. > > Brian gets to hear this story twice, but as a word of caution to the > rest of you (and maybe a little laugh), here is how not to save your > files: > > What had originally happened is I had saved the document as HTML about > 2 days ago just to see what the HTML version would look like. It > didn't click with me that I was continuing to work with the HTML file, > rather than the original ODT file, and I never closed OpenOffice for > those 2 days so I continued saving progress to the HTML file. I had > also created a number of other temporary HTML documents in the same > location and after finally finishing the document and closing > OpenOffice, just before backing up the drive, I deleted (and > "shredded") all the temporary HTML files -- and of course one of those > "temporary" files was my working document. Oops! (And no, the web > browser doesn't cache local files, sadly!). > > Guy Voets wrote: >> Yes, that's what they call bad luck... > > As you can see, it's a bit more than just bad luck! :-) > > Suffice it to say that I turned on automatic backups, and will also be > much more careful in the future. Learned it the hard way this time! > > Thanks again, > Jason
But now you can rest easy, knowing that isn't likely to ever happen again! <g> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
