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Originally Posted by Scarlett
del *.* in the c:/ directory of a win3.11 machine
Managed to restore for the computer next to it but a worried few minutes
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I shouldn't really admit to it, but hey...
I typed "DEL *.*" in the root directory of a CP-M machine (yeah - I'm
that old!) which unfortunately hadn't been backed up for 3 weeks.
At the "Are you sure?" prompt I typed 'Y', immediately realising that was the
wrong answer!
But, as it happened, I managed to recover 3 week's worth of work (all assembly language code!) from memory (i.e.
my memory - no printouts) over the next 3 days.
Let's just say it was an object lesson to affirm the need for regular backups. (And maybe also to read a prompt twice before typing!)
On a slightly similar note, I know someone who had an iPod/Imac and collected a HUGE amount of music, which was sync'ed between iPod and iMac. Now this stuff obviously was taking up a lot of disk space on the iMac, and since it was all on the iPod, he decided to delete the stuff off the iMac to save space.
Of course, the next time he connected the iPod, it sync'ed to the iMac...
Yeah, you guessed it - the iPod promptly deleted all the files stored on it! It was probably cruel, but I couldn't help laughing.
And before you think of suggesting it - NO! - it was NOT me!