Laptop Stolen South Circular Road Any Info?

Tiesto

Hi all..
Might aswell give it a go..
Basically my friend who lives on South Circular Road, Dublin 8 had her housemates car broken into and the laptop stolen. Its not the laptop thats important. Its more the fact that shes a photograper and all of her last few years work is on it.. So would be great to get it back..

Anybody hear of a laptop going for sale? It was stolen yesterday evening, i guess they would be pretty anxious to offload it? The brandname is Gericom.


thanks for reading.

Adam

Morale of the story?




Backup.

Mimikyu

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Adam

I am posting something useful! People under estimate the importance of backing up work, we all assume 'it wont happen to us'. I had a lot of work on my pc not so long ago that I lost due to a virus, so if there's one thing the OP should take from this its that piece of advice.

May I bring it to the attention of others that your post was even less helpful to the OP? Smooth.

Mimikyu

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Adam

Precisely!

@OP

Best thing for your friend if portability is necessery would be a 1Gig flash stick, fits right on to your key ring. They may come in 2 Gig now, I'm not sure...

Tiesto

thanks for all those words of wisdom but unfortunately its too late..
She should have backed up the stuff but she didnt..
So the only thing i can do now is ask around, see if anyone was offered a laptop for a 'good' price

Adam

Best of luck too you, unfortunately its highly unlikely she'll see it again!

Tiesto

yea unlikely but sher im just giving this a try...
would be willing to pay a few hundred for it aswell...

She left a laptop. in her car. on the south circular road....

Oh dear.

justsomebloke

yes there are many morals to this story,

have you checked ebay jsut incase

hullaballoo

Did she keep track of the service tag? If it's a Dell laptop, there would have been a service tag on it on the underside. Ring Dell with it and report it stolen. If it isn't dell, I'm not sure how it works, but I'd say there is something similar.

Tiesto

its not dell, its Gericom..
I know it was foolish to leave the laptop in the car...
But she just got back from the airport and she was in the house less than 2 minutes when the neighbours rang the doorbell and told her the car was broken into

p~b

did this really need to be made a sticky

Tiesto

Please only those with info that could help, write back..
no need for all the irrelevant replies thanks
whether it should be a sticky or not is irrelevant, i asked one of the moderators if it was possible to do for a day and he was decent enough to help me out.

drdre

go to the police and talk to them as there might be camera around there.what part of scr was it robbed on.

hepcat

POst up no questions asked reward notice for whoever "finds" laptop, in the local shops / pubs? Scumbags who stole it are probably from around there...If she's willing to pay a few hundred that's probably about what they'd get for the laptop anyway..Might be worth a try if its that important to her.

Oriel

Don't forget about Broken and Stolen.

Tiesto

thanks for that hepcat..
yeah we thought about doing that.
sounds like the best idea to me..
will give it ago.

Tiesto

sinecurea wrote:

Don't forget about Broken and Stolen.

sorry whats that?

kwinabeeste

I live just off the South circular and got my laptop robbed as did next door neighbour. The police knew exactly who it was and they recovered the laptop in a few days and I got it back bout a week later. The cops were really quick and really good, but it may have different as the scumbags broke into houses to get stuff.

good luck!

Tiesto

kwinabeeste wrote:

I live just off the South circular and got my laptop robbed as did next door neighbour. The police knew exactly who it was and they recovered the laptop in a few days and I got it back bout a week later. The cops were really quick and really good, but it may have different as the scumbags broke into houses to get stuff.

good luck!

Thanks for that info. Could be useful. Did they only take the laptop?

is_that_so

Had my car broken into a couple of years back near Pearse Street. The radio was taken and a pile of CDs. Gardai got it all back except for 1 CD. As the poster said they knew who to "call on".

The_Minister

You are going to hate me for this. You are going to hate me. Your friends work has probably been erased and the laptop rebooted.

Tiesto

Firespinner wrote:

You are going to hate me for this. You are going to hate me. Your friends work has probably been erased and the laptop rebooted.

Christ how do i need to repeat myself!
Thanks for that info but i already took that possibility into consideration.
Sometimes i wonder is boards full of illiterates?
I said i dont want anyone to reply with irrelevant info.
kwinabeeste and is that so, thank you both for your relevant replies.
Firespinner,thank you not.

kwinabeeste

Tiesto wrote:

Thanks for that info. Could be useful. Did they only take the laptop?

games and dvd's but only got laptop back...had to buy a new cable, but considering the alternative i was happy with that! any news from cops?

the_syco

Firespinner wrote:

You are going to hate me for this. You are going to hate me. Your friends work has probably been erased and the laptop rebooted.

Sorry, but I don't see the probelm. If the photo's are really worth mucho casho, its possible to recover them.

johnp

the_syco wrote:

Sorry, but I don't see the probelm. If the photo's are really worth mucho casho, its possible to recover them.

Spot on. Even if the disk has been erased, the data can still be recovered.
A mates harddisk crashed a few weeks ago. The PC wouldn't even boot anymore. He had some really important info re his upcoming wedding.
€100-ish and he got it back.

The_Minister

Tiesto wrote:

Christ how do i need to repeat myself!
Thanks for that info but i already took that possibility into consideration.
Sometimes i wonder is boards full of illiterates?
I said i dont want anyone to reply with irrelevant info.
kwinabeeste and is that so, thank you both for your relevant replies.
Firespinner,thank you not.

I did not realise that such data could be retrieved, so I thought that you might have been engaging in a pointless exercise.

drdre

johnp wrote:

Spot on. Even if the disk has been erased, the data can still be recovered.
A mates harddisk crashed a few weeks ago. The PC wouldn't even boot anymore. He had some really important info re his upcoming wedding.
€100-ish and he got it back.

i never knew it could be recovered.just learnt someting new today:D

Oriel

Tiesto wrote:

sorry whats that?

B&S = Buy and Sell. www.buyandsell.ie

S.

okidoki987

Broken and Stolen is another name for Buy and Sell!

Tiesto

Tiesto wrote:

Christ how do i need to repeat myself!
Thanks for that info but i already took that possibility into consideration.
Sometimes i wonder is boards full of illiterates?
I said i dont want anyone to reply with irrelevant info.
kwinabeeste and is that so, thank you both for your relevant replies.
Firespinner,thank you not.

Maybe you shouldn't act like such a dick when you are expecting people to do favours for you.

Oriel

sinecurea wrote:

Don't forget about Broken and Stolen.

Tiesto wrote:

sorry whats that?

sinecurea wrote:

B&S = Buy and Sell. www.buyandsell.ie

okidoki987 wrote:

Broken and Stolen is another name for Buy and Sell!

:rolleyes:

Dreamer 7

maybe its the wrong one but i was in the chipper on Tue night and two teenagers come in with a laptop, dictafone and mobile. Offering a "good price" didnt look too closley but the chipper was on crumlin rd just over dolphins barn bridge??

Tiesto

ronoc wrote:

Maybe you shouldn't act like such a dick when you are expecting people to do favours for you.

I wouldnt consider people talking rubbish as doing a favour for me, 'dick'.

blu_sonic

did you report it to the computer store on the SCR? it deals in 2nd hand laptops might "show up" there

nesf

Quieten yourself down guys, less of the crap. This is going to be unstuck very quickly unless people start to cop on.

Slutmonkey57b

Tiesto wrote:

Christ how do i need to repeat myself!
Thanks for that info but i already took that possibility into consideration.
Sometimes i wonder is boards full of illiterates?
I said i dont want anyone to reply with irrelevant info.
kwinabeeste and is that so, thank you both for your relevant replies.
Firespinner,thank you not.

Can we please unsticky this thread now? Given that the OP is now jumping down people's throats when he thinks they are unworthy?

Note to OP:
It's not our problem. We don't have to do anything for you. Bitching at people who are posting information intending to tell you what has most likely happened to the laptop isn't going to make us any more likely to help you.
And for what it's worth, I don't think this should have been stickied in the first place, particularly not AH.

Tiesto

slutmonkey can you not read either?
I was getting nothing but useless replies at the beginning, and i said i dont want anyone to post "irrelevant" info. You think I dont know what is the likely outcome!!!

Greener

I live up on South Circular road as well, and this time last year my laptop was stolen from the luggage compartment underneath a bus eireann bus, and again, it was not the stolen laptop that was the problem, it was all my college assignments and stuff that were on it. I had made backup copies onto floppy discs and sadly for me the backup's were in the laptop bag. unfortunately I have to tell your friend not to hold her breath, as despite getting the gardai involved and my solicitor, my bag has still never turned up.

Tiesto

Ok Mods ye can close this thread now or delete it or whatever.
Thanks for allowing it to be a sticky.

nedoo

If I did have it, you would do nothing for me to want to give it back.

Heyes

Tiesto wrote:

Ok Mods ye can close this thread now or delete it or whatever.
Thanks for allowing it to be a sticky.

Any joy tiesto ?

Tiesto

nedoo wrote:

If I did have it, you would do nothing for me to want to give it back.

where did that come from.
Good job you dont have it then you weirdo.

No, no luck Heyes. Ahwell.
Looks like she will have to get the camera out and start putting together another portfolio

Tiesto

Tiesto wrote:

where did that come from.
Good job you dont have it then you weirdo.

He has a point you know.:)

segadreamcast

Tiesto wrote:

where did that come from.
Good job you dont have it then you weirdo.

...and they say there's no such thing as karma.

johnp

ronoc wrote:

He has a point you know.:)

I don't think he does.
OP started the thread by asking if anyone had heard about the laptop. He/she got some helpful responses, but also got some replies that were in no way helpful. He/she responded (without being abusive), but when the comments got out of hand he/she responded accordingly.
I'm with the OP on this one.

Peace

I backed-up my photo's last night....

Tiesto

NoelRock wrote:

...and they say there's no such thing as karma.

Whats that supposed to mean?
And who is they? I dont see anyone else talking about karma..
But i can confirm there is a Karma. Decent enough night club actually.

Tiesto

Peace wrote:

I backed-up my photo's last night....

Good to hear Peace. At least something good came of this.
So hopefully you wont ever be in the same position.