[dba-Tech] Just lost a Word file

[Susan Harkins]

I couldn't recover it. That's a good idea. It would've saved me today. I'm
just so dang... angry at myself for making such a silly mistake! The files
don't even have the same name, so how I did it, I don't know. But let's
chalk it up to my idiot folder and move on. I need to rewrite it from
scratch, which is a pain, but will go by quickly. It's still in my head. 

Susan H. 

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-Tech <dba-tech-bounces+ssharkins=gmail.com at databaseadvisors.com>
On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2022 1:42 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Just lost a Word file

The best one for my money is drag and drop to an EHD.  Crude but effective.

I got into the habit a long time ago, before the internets and cloud.  I was
always afraid of losing a program file so whenever I finished working on any
file, I dragged it to the desktop EHD shortcut. Then I started dragging to
TWO EHDs so I had three copies. Now, even though any file I work on is also
on my Google Drive, I still drag and drop to an external EHD. Plus on mdbs
and word docs I append a version number which I bump every time I'm finished
with a file.  IOW, I don't trust my computer as far as I can throw it.

r

On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 10:21 AM Susan Harkins <ssharkins at gmail.com> wrote:

> No, I don't have any of the Windows or Word features enabled for 
> recovery because I'm stupid.
>
> I'm running software right now but it's going to take forever, but 
> small price to pay if it works.
>
> At least I'll get an article out of it. I had no idea there were so 
> many backup and recovery features now available.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-Tech 
> <dba-tech-bounces+ssharkins=gmail.com at databaseadvisors.com>
> On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin
> Sent: Friday, April 15, 2022 1:14 PM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues 
> <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Just lost a Word file
>
> Could it be in the recovery pane in Word? Did you try a search on part 
> of the file name? I use voidtools' Everything. It's very effective.
>
> r
>
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 10:05 AM Susan Harkins <ssharkins at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I just did the dumbest thing I think I've ever done while working.
> > Someone, I overwrote my Word article file with my Word demo file. 
> > I've check the temp folder, OneDrive. no where in site. Any hope to 
> > recover it?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Susan Harkins
> >
> >
> >
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