Tinfoilhatsron
Banned
Bruh why.
Still, nice luck on recovering the files. How many files in total did you have in your folder? Also adorable dog!
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Puppy deleted my work. How fucked am I?
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Still, nice luck on recovering the files. How many files in total did you have in your folder? Also adorable dog!
RumblingRosco
Member
Pro-tip: Shift + Delete will permanently delete things, bypassing your Recycle Bin.
Enable the damn Recycle Bin and get used to Shift + Delete.
EchoChamber
Member
My brain can't process the idea of why is a good idea to disable the recycle bin.?
Patrick Young
Member
I did more than enough hard drive replacements at my old job to ensure I backed up everything properly.
Outside of my Downloads folder, everything goes to Dropbox.
Outside of my Downloads folder, everything goes to Dropbox.
Nomadic Sparks
Banned
Same
Came to suggest this. I accidentally hit delete on my phone on the entire DCIM (pics/videos) folder I had.
I usually back my phone up (on my PC which then also backs up to an off-site account) but had to go a while due to replacing it and some problems with the process. Accidentally did the delete when I inserted my micro SD card into the new phone and was setting it up.
Ran Recuva on the micro SD card using a USB adapter on my PC and got back almost every single picture and all my videos that were on the phone. Out of 1700 files it recovered 1690 of them.
Talk about relieved.
AND owns a puppy that can delete files
Baroquemantic
Member
Puppy is clearly a cat in disguise.
Triggerhappytel
Member
Yeah, if this is his life's work over the past year and he doesn't even have backups that's just asking for trouble. A laptop could die in a thousand different ways whether it's puppy, coffee or explosion related and not having even some kind of simple backup for important shit is just crazy.
Edit - glad to see a mostly successful solution at least.
Imperial Bishop
Banned
I think I got tired of emptying it and figured I'd just cut out the middle man.
paperboywriter
Member
If that story is real this dog is dogfood
Yeaaah, I really don't understand the need to disable recycle bin. That is all.
Edit: Is this what they mean with "PC gaming is too much tinkering". That even recycle bin is considered a nuisance.
tiebreaker
Member
She is a cutie OP. I'd let her chew on my homework.
Lesson learned.
Glad to see you were able to recover most of the files!
brainzelda
Member
Who saves anything locally anymore? It's 2017 fellas, use the Internet.
Marty Chinn
Member
What?
Backups, backups, backups. Anything important to you, you should have a second copy of it. Not stored locally. But I'm sure enough people have told you that. Also, I'm not so sure why you disabled the recycle bin, if you want to permanently delete something, shift + delete works.
Try some of the free software linked to recover the files, if that doesn't work, you'll have to take the drive to a local shop, or (worst-case scenario), send it off to a drive recovery facility.
Edit: Just saw your update, that's good that you were able to recover part of the files.
Try some of the free software linked to recover the files, if that doesn't work, you'll have to take the drive to a local shop, or (worst-case scenario), send it off to a drive recovery facility.
Edit: Just saw your update, that's good that you were able to recover part of the files.
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
QuantumZebra
Member
That and never having backups. Because I lost A lot of shit years ago and I vowed to never let it happen again. Also flash drives are untrustworthy as well need some kind of online backup for at minimum the most important stuff.
Mr Touchdown
Member
Everyone,
Regardless of your recycling bin situation,
If it's important
BACK UP YOUR SHIT
Save yourself the heart attack. Thank God you could restore some files.
That doggo is cute as hell.
Regardless of your recycling bin situation,
If it's important
BACK UP YOUR SHIT
Save yourself the heart attack. Thank God you could restore some files.
That doggo is cute as hell.
This almost reads like some kind of copypasta, at least the first part.
Glad it worked out in the end (for the most part)!
This is reminding me I need to get a new external for backups.
we sent the puppy back in time to make sure some things never happened. While the OP converts those files, he will discover something that
tearsintherain
Member
Install dropbox, onedrive, etc and backups aren't even something you "think" about - all your documents and stuff should be in your dropbox, stored locally and automatically backed up to the cloud without you thinking about it.
If you have a lot of data, well, pay that $100/yr or whatever for dropbox or onedrive premium and get the extra 10gb.
My dad takes a lot of photos, he loves digital cameras. He also has something like 350gb of photos now on his PC. I bought him Google drive pro or whatever its called, its $100/yr, auto backs up to google photos up to 1TB of photos, and its all seamless and automatic. he can see the photos on the web or on his PC, he just sticks the flash card from his camera into the PC and it puts it all in the right place and the google photos backup program automatically copies it over at night.
Likewise, everyone in my family has a dropbox folder and I set it up so My Documents instead goes into a Dropbox folder with their name. Nobody takes up more than 1gb since there really aren't "documents" anymore, but they could lose their pc/laptop and be back up on a new computer in a few minutes with zero data lost.
If you have a lot of data, well, pay that $100/yr or whatever for dropbox or onedrive premium and get the extra 10gb.
My dad takes a lot of photos, he loves digital cameras. He also has something like 350gb of photos now on his PC. I bought him Google drive pro or whatever its called, its $100/yr, auto backs up to google photos up to 1TB of photos, and its all seamless and automatic. he can see the photos on the web or on his PC, he just sticks the flash card from his camera into the PC and it puts it all in the right place and the google photos backup program automatically copies it over at night.
Likewise, everyone in my family has a dropbox folder and I set it up so My Documents instead goes into a Dropbox folder with their name. Nobody takes up more than 1gb since there really aren't "documents" anymore, but they could lose their pc/laptop and be back up on a new computer in a few minutes with zero data lost.
Nope, people who PC game typically just use Shift+Delete to permanently delete stuff. No tinkering necessary there.
Sparrowhawk
Member
I've cleaned out all the file clutter I used to have.
Now just about everything lives in folders that are synced to Google Drive or OneDrive.
And everything is backed up daily in the background with CrashPlan including an external drive for files too large for the file hosting services.
Now just about everything lives in folders that are synced to Google Drive or OneDrive.
And everything is backed up daily in the background with CrashPlan including an external drive for files too large for the file hosting services.
StopMakingSense
Member
I just find it weird you so concerned about your exports but not the apparently disorganized project files. That's your actual work, not the exports.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
For sure. I mean it's not as bad as it sounds since I can always dig up those projects but I'm disorganized as fuck. I'm working on it.
