[AccessD] A2K: Oh, BROTHER! Have I screwed up or not?

Steve:

Day late and a dollar short on this but I have a compulsive habit if hitting 
Alt-f-s a LOT.  If I really screw up (it happens) I close the app without 
saving and have my last save to go back to.  I also make a backup to my 
second machine and to the thumb drive every time I close the app for lunch 
or potty or to go to another task.  I'm not paranoid, I really am out to get 
me.

Rocky




----- Original Message ----- 
From: <GregSmith at starband.net>
To: <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 1:07 PM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] A2K: Oh, BROTHER! Have I screwed up or not?


> Steve:
>
> Sorry to hear about that.  Been there and done that.  In Access there was
> a way to recover a table, form, etc...but I never could figure out how to
> do it.  You were "insufficiently paranoid".  Which makes me, what,
> sufficiently paranoid...?
>
> To keep from doing what you are about to HAVE to do (go back to
> yesterday's code) I use a more "paranoid" scheme to keep from losing my
> programming.  Well, at least too much of it.  I name my program file,
> let's say, GWSDB-020405 at 1501.mdb, and when I make any significant changes
> (which can be defined as...anything more than what I want to retype or
> recode or redesign...), I make a copy of this file, store the original in
> another folder on another drive on another computer/server (see...told
> you...paranoid), and rename the copy to the current time.  That way there
> are no duplicates.  The next day, start with a new copy with a different
> date and new time.  This has saved my clumsy fingers more than once.
>
> And it takes me all of one or two minutes to do that...so I think it's
> worth the time.
>
> And, oh yea, I take a copy offsite when I go home.  Paranoid might be an
> understatement...
>
> None of this will help you now...but maybe in the future...:)
>
> Greg
>
>
>> Dear Group,
>>
>> I've been working on a complicated module over the past three days in
>> Access 2000. I was working in the VBA IDE and I had two module windows
>> open as well as the Project Explorer.
>>
>> There was a bit of code that I wanted to delete in one of the modules,
>> so I highlighted it with my mouse and pressed the Delete key. Instead of
>> the bit of code being deleted, the other module that was open in the IDE
>> was deleted! It no longer appears in the list of modules in the Access
>> Database window.
>>
>> I checked the Options and, sure enough, I had un-checked the option for
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