There’s a lesson that I never learn: and it’s “Never repair your computer when you’re sick.”
Why? Because I start bungling and forgetting things – and typically personal data gets lost somewhere in the mess.
Ling messaged yesterday morning to say that her PC had started acting up. So, after doing a diagnosis this morning, I determined that the hard disk controller had failed on the motherboard and messaged Ling that I was going to go pick up replacement parts from Sim Lim Square to assemble her a new PC, and that all her data on the hard disks were safe.
The new PC assembly and disassembly of the old one to move components about went pretty smoothly. However, I thought I had listed in my head every data folder from Ling’s PC I needed to backup: but I forgot that Windows doesn’t let you copy files out from a user’s AppData folder unless you’re properly logged in (which I couldn’t to begin with).
Techno babble aside, Ling’s email folder disappeared somewhere in the transition. It was only after a reformat and a reinstallation of Windows when I realized, “er… oh – oh…”.
Who to blame? Well, I’m still sick and feverish, that’s why. And of course I should have realized that I should have saved this repair job for next week or something.
At least only the emails from Jan 2010 onwards were lost from Outlook, and even a good portion of those lost emails copies have been autoforwarded regularly to another email account of hers that I set up. Also, all her work files, pictures etc. are OK.
Still – I have to break the bad news to her when she comes back home a bit later. Gaaah.
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