so has all the ucc'ers handed in their thesis in time...

x in the city

:rolleyes:


never again am i doing one!

Orizio

Tomorrow.

Orizio

So, funny story, I knocked the AC adapter out of my computer as I was working on my dissertation, and now the entire thing is gone. Open Office has it 'locked' or something like that and when I try to open it I get two dialogue boxes and then a load of symbols. No back-up.

I am ****ed.

x in the city

wtf

serious?

Orizio

x in the city wrote: »

wtf

serious?

Yes - entire dissertation is gone. Evidently the computer went off just as the file was in the middle of saving, hence why its impossible to retrieve.

deisedude

Orizio wrote: »

Yes - entire dissertation is gone. Evidently the computer went off just as the file was in the middle of saving, hence why its impossible to retrieve.

You may be able to retrieve it from the harddrive if you go to an expert in a computer shop about it or if you know some brainiac in computer science or BIS. I'm presuming you have saved an earlier copy of your dissertation on your laptop

Papa_Lazarou

Orizio i not trying to be smart here but for something that you put so much work into you really should have had a second copy on a usb stick or something. If it was saved on your computer it should be accessable even if its not visible to you. Make a quick call into the computercentre and ask them for a bit of advice,theres also one or two very good comp guys in town who pretty much specialise in this sort of retrevial. Ill have to get onto my uncle to see who he uses and ill pm you if i get a rplay anytime soon.

Orizio

Papa_Lazarou wrote: »

Orizio i not trying to be smart here but for something that you put so much work into you really should have had a second copy on a usb stick or something.

Wow. Thanks.

Anyway, got an extension after some interrogation, so its not too bad, but I'm in line for three more boring and irratating weeks.

x in the city

3 weeks, can you get it done in that time scale?

cant believe you didn't back it up in several places, i had 300megs of back ups of word docs all over my system!, emailing it to yourself towards the end of your work is also something that everyone should do.

Orizio

OpenOffice should have backed it up, the problem is the power went as it was saving the document so presumebly it failed to get a chance to create a back-up file. A bit of a freak thing really. I still should have been able to get the file restored except I'm using Vista which is apparently notorious for ****ing up with this kind of thing.

Max001

Feckin heartbreaker man :eek: Had a similar scare mid way through mine. Email it to myself after every bit of work is done now. Agree with another poster here. Worth finding out if you can get it recovered from the disc I'd have thought. Good luck!

Eliot Rosewater

Orizio wrote: »

A bit of a freak thing really. I still should have been able to get the file restored except I'm using Vista which is apparently notorious for ****ing up with this kind of thing.

That is unlucky. I heard a story similar to yours where they did get the file back, but they were using Linux.

Anyway, I recall you had to submit drafts to your supervisor, would you be able to get hold of those? Better than nothing...

x in the city

another reason why no one should use vista

brehayes

got mine done and handed in yesterday - hard to believe that it's all done and finished now!

On a side, I could not rate Herbert Bookbinders highly enough, they were fantastic - I dropped in the thesis after lunch on Thursday and it was ready for 9am on Fri - and they gave me a 10% discount for no reason!

In other news, I have nothing to do anymore!! :P

Rabble Rabble

Have.