One bright sunny day. Birds chirping. Cows moo-ing. Atmosphere great outside.
Everybody enjoying at home as well. Many electronic gadgets being used by my family members. Radio, Television, Mixer, I-pod, Computer.
I was using the computer. I wanted to clean out my Desktop folders. I don't like it cluttered. I don't like to have more than 6 or 7 folders on my Desktop.
First I arranged them in an order. A simple right click, a selection and that does it.
Second, I hold down the control button on my white keyboard and select a few files and folders.
Third, I press Shift+Delete.
Fourth, all the files I'd selected gets deleted.
OOPS!
Problem: I had accidentally selected the folder which had all my music and movies and photos and programs. And yes, they got deleted as well.
I frantically searched my entire file system for it. All in vain. Poopie :(
Thats ok, no need to get your tissues out, I had back up. Not much harm done.
But it made me feel pretty stupid you know. Its like one second you're holding a beautiful crystal ball and the next second you accidentally smash it on the floor. Its like you ask somebody, hey where's building X and you realize you're standing right in front of it. Its like one of those situations when you feel.. Duh! how stupid!
If you know what I mean....
4 comments:
Thought you might want to know.. there are recovery software which can recover quiet a lot of stuff that was Shift+Deleted..
(until you fill up thus emptied space with something else)
But yeah, you had backup, thats really good! (and surprising! - who keeps backup?!)
p.s. very interesting way to write the post :)
Yup I tried using photorec as a recovery tool.. but there were tooo o o o o o many files listed and I realized that too much work was involved to sort out those files.
So i just went back to my back up :)
1. Never clutter ur desktop [both our views match in this]
2. even if ur desktop is cluttered, u can always hide all icons on the desktop
3. Never have any of the data/movies/music on ur windows drive. [if u are having it on the desktop, it means its on ur C drive, thank God u had backup..!]
4. shift+del rocks..! am always happy when i see the extra space added on to the free space on the 'details', after deletion..!!
anyway, though our views are different, nice post..!
Thanks Ashwin! I'll keep those tips in mind for the next time . . .
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