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I did a very bad thing this weekend

February 13th, 2007 · 1 Comment · You want whine with that

This weekend I didn’t feel very well. Or I didn’t feel very well on Sunday.

I got up. I went back to bed. I got up when the Hubs and the Daughter left to run MY Sunday errands, i.e. the Target Store, the Health Food Store (which has recently become a weekly thing since we’ve discovered I have an allergic child), The Grocery Store and any other place I need to go that I don’t have time or energy to go during the week. Since I was in charge of the BoyChild, I moved downstairs where he was playing and dozed on the sofa while he played his Leapster, and with his trucks and what not.

After the Hubs got home, I wondered upstairs to check my calendar at work and to enter some checks into Quicken.

While I was there, I decided to delete some accounts that irritate me. They were retirement accounts I had entered at one point but they have been consolidated, and moved, and converted to Roths. They bear no resemblance to reality. And they irritate me sometimes. Because I don’t have time to fix them and I wouldn’t really even know how to fix them if I had the time. So, in my Nyquil induced haze, I decided to delete them.

So, I highlighted the account I thought I wanted to delete. I pushed the delete key. It asked me if I was sure. It even required me to type Y-E-S I’m damned sure. It warned me that this action can not be undone.

And I deleted that irritating account. But, did I mention the Nyquil induced haze, then, after I’d said yes a dozen times, and even typed Y-E-S delete the damned thing, I realized I’d deleted my Attorney operating account.

Oh.My.God.

I’d not gotten anything ready for the tax guy yet.

I’d not backed up (at least intentionally) since God knows when.

And I’d just deleted my entire business accounts for the last three years.

Gggggggaaaaaahhhhhh.

So I turned off my computer at work. And went back to bed.

And this morning, I spent all morning fixing it. Or trying to.

First I called the woman who takes care of our computers at work. I have been a little concerned that none of the stuff on my hard drive was backed up. Not my bankruptcy cases. Not my checking accounts. Not any of the stuff I do on my computer that’s not saved to the Server. We had discussed whether it would be possible to back up my desktop to the Server whenever we back up the Server. Like we talked about it one day late last week. No, she’d talked to her computer Guru husband who said it would be too much to back up onto the server and suggested I get a portable harddrive to back up my computer. Which of course I hadn’t done.

So I called Quicken Technical Support and talked to someone in India. And for $24.95 he helped me recover my Quicken data. At least as of about three days before I deleted it. In any event, I only lost, and had to recreate, a little data as opposed to a WHOLE LOT OF DATA. I offered to kiss him on the lips for saving my ass that way. He laughed a little and assured me the $24.95 would be sufficient.

Lesson learned: Don’t delete any computer files while in a Nyquil induced haze.

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  • 1 Bobita~ // Feb 13, 2007 at 4:22 pm

    I sooooo feel your pain!! Just a few short weeks ago I deleted my entire “dissertation” file!!! This happened right before I was to send my first draft dissertation proposal to my committee, and of course, I hadn’t backed anything up for about 2 months…it was BAD!! I finally found a program to recover the data, but have yet to decipher the contents of the recovered data!! In the end, I ended up re-typing about 40 pages… AHHHHH!

    But, lesson learned, I guess!!

    I’m soooo glad you were able to recover as much as you did.

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