everyone in the class as a warning/reminder.
I stayed a little longer than usual to finish up my projects. When I
went to open Firefox so I could upload my pictures to Blogger, the
entire computer froze up (I dared to use Firefox because Safari is
lacking in some features that Blogger uses, eg the rich text editor). I
had to restart the entire machine, and I suppose I pulled my USB drive
out too early. This wiped the entire partition table. For those who
don't know what that means, it's like having all the names and pointers
to your files on your hard drive be destroyed, leaving it with raw and
fragmented data.
I bought recovery software, but it was unable to retrieve complete
files of everything. What I lost was more than .tiffs for this class. I
had personal works on there, as well as an 11 page essay for my
Anthropology class. Luckily, I had earlier drafts in my email so I was
able to re-finish it.
Heed Deirdre's original advice:
- Don't pull out the flash drive until it's ejected and gone from the desktop. How to resolve this when the computer is completely locked up, I don't know.
- Stay away from Firefox. Sometimes even Safari freezes up.
- NEVER rely on your flash drive as a primary storage device! Always make back-ups. Unfortunately our Mills servers only hold 20MB per student, not nearly enough for our class work. Save stuff to your home laptop/computer, save it to your work Mac in Prieto, or if you're lucky, upload it to a server with FTP and storage.
These will save you hell, I swear. I bet you're better than I am and do
all that anyway! :)
See you Monday,
Julie A.
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