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I didn't even get mad.
#357918 - 08/22/16 03:52 PM
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Years a go, I set up a harddrive to serve as a household cloud to store every picture and movie we ever took, to get them all in one place and organized.
Yesterday, Gatinha was uploading pictures to it, and then deleting them from her computer. She called me in for help wondering how all this "crap" got on her computer, and no matter how much she deletes, more keeps coming. No she wasn't deleting crap off her computer. She was wholesale deleting folders off the harddrive, and the only thing slowing her down was the delay waiting for the harddrive registries to load through the network to her computer.
We lost every picture or movie we ever took preceding 2013.
I'm sure I can look into recovery options. The point was, the damage was done. No point in getting mad. The loss affected us both equally.
Even more ironic, I just the SAME DAY that morning ordered a new 8TB drive to use to backup the household cloud. Ordered it just too late to serve its purpose in time.
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Re: I didn't even get mad.
[Re: GatKong]
#357919 - 08/22/16 05:03 PM
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DO NOTHING ELSE TO THE HARD DRIVE. This is important, as everything else you do decreases the possibility of recovery.
When you recover, or set up your new system, do not grant anyone else DELETE permissions.
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Re: I didn't even get mad.
[Re: GatKong]
#357920 - 08/22/16 05:52 PM
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We only understand the real importance of backups after a real disaster.
But what I wanted to say is that Recuva is free and I've had quite good results with it. However as you describe the situation I think you lost the things for good. Still worth a try to do a mass recovery and see if any picture is visible. Better recovering 5 or 10% than nothing.
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Re: I didn't even get mad.
[Re: JWJr]
#357931 - 08/23/16 03:44 AM
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Edit: Write is required to add stuff, but if your wife's account is not an administrator you could set an inherited read only attribute to files within a folder, and it would be as effective.
Edit 2: My bad, delete is indeed a separate permission in Windows in the advanced tab. Forgot about that.
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Re: I didn't even get mad.
[Re: GatKong]
#357937 - 08/23/16 10:54 AM
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> Years a go, I set up a harddrive to serve as a household cloud to store every picture
> and movie we ever took, to get them all in one place and organized.
That was mistake number one.
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> Yesterday, Gatinha was uploading pictures to it, and then deleting them from her
> computer. She called me in for help wondering how all this "crap" got on her
> computer
What, she didn't know about the "household cloud" hard drive?
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Re: I didn't even get mad.
[Re: GatKong]
#357940 - 08/23/16 02:43 PM
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> I'm sure I can look into recovery options. The point was, the damage was done. No
> point in getting mad. The loss affected us both equally.
It's not even about the loss affecting you two equally, it's simply that there's no point in getting mad when it comes to lost data. It's not going to get the data back, and it's not going to warp you to a few hours earlier to push Gatinha's hands away from the keyboard and mouse.
I have kind of an odd attitude towards backups, I just don't bother with them, as I don't hold any particular attachment to the data on my hard drives. I've lost enough data over the years that I've become numb to data loss. I've written plenty of programs, downloaded tons of things, and taken plenty of pictures and videos that I won't ever get back, granted. But ultimately the ones that actually meant anything to me wound up being uploaded to places like Imgur, or on other websites, so that I could share the good memories with the various friends I've got across the web. Everything else I can rewrite (and better), re-download, or recall from my memory; and as anyone knows, the grass in your memory is more green, the clouds in your memory are more shapely, and the women in your memory are more beautiful versus when you finally go and look back at the actual photo. So I'm kind of okay with that stuff staying in my head.
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Re: I didn't even get mad.
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#357941 - 08/23/16 02:45 PM
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Dunno what you're getting at with your second "point". I have to tell my wife about things repeatedly. She is completely computer and internet retarded. No fault of mine. Doesn't care to really learn.
I do, however, make backups on a schedule through Acronis, and I copy the profile folders elsewhere before a deployment. Worst case, it'll take me less than an hour to make the system exactly what it was the day I left.
Things I don't back up regularly (on other than my system drive) that I either can't replace or don't care to have to download again (like... the MAME stuff with all chds) comes with me on externals anyway.
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Re: I didn't even get mad.
[Re: GatKong]
#357944 - 08/23/16 07:02 PM
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If the sectors haven't been overwritten/zeroed, there is a chance a simple free recovery program like Recuva can get them back for you;
https://www.piriform.com/recuva
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Re: I didn't even get mad.
[Re: URherenow]
#357958 - 08/24/16 06:03 AM
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Those who don't care, or who are/may be inept, don't get the keys. There has to be someone in charge. Too many chiefs invariably fucks things up.
My dad has the main computer, the one my mom uses, locked the fuck down, so she can't do fuck but fuck her own shit up.
Sometimes I get confused when backing up stuff manually, so I make goddamn sure which device I'm looking at, but the smart way is to go from left to right (or right to left if you swing that way....), and have the home directory tab first.
Lastly, I thought this kind of scenario was one reason for 'syncing'. So she adds new stuff to hers, and the home system copies it. Outta sight, outta mind.
I don't share nothin. Not money, not house, not devices..... I don't even let people hold my phone when I'm showing them pictures. I sure don't let them call out, not even family members.
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Re: I didn't even get mad.
[Re: MooglyGuy]
#357959 - 08/24/16 06:08 AM
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Um, no, my lasses are just as beautiful as when I was with 'em.
Anyways, if I was in love with her, I wouldn't get mad. But I'd strip her the fuck down right there and fuck her in the ass.
If I wasn't in love with her.....well, that's why I don't live with nobodae.
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Re: I didn't even get mad.
[Re: GatKong]
#357964 - 08/24/16 07:20 AM
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This year, I bought my first backup drive ever (8TB). I've wanted one for years but couldn't afford one. I learned a hard lesson when I lost my whole hard drive (and every pet photo on it) circa 2009.
Doing a modified files backup every week is far easier than redownloading/recropping/unstretching/remuxing 3000 TV episodes and 1000 movies in the event my movies drive crashes or the wife ever does an "oopsie".
Sorry for your loss.
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Re: I didn't even get mad.
[Re: Traso]
#357965 - 08/24/16 10:22 AM
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> If I wasn't in love with her.....well, that's why I don't live with nobodae.
I would have thought comments like
> I'd strip her the fuck
> down right there and fuck her in the ass.
are why you don't live with anyone.
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Re: I didn't even get mad.
[Re: MooglyGuy]
#358032 - 08/27/16 07:07 AM
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> > If I wasn't in love with her.....well, that's why I don't live with nobodae.
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> I would have thought comments like
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> > I'd strip her the fuck
> > down right there and fuck her in the ass.
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> are why you don't live with anyone.
HAHN HAHN HAHN HAHN HAHN. Right??
Thing is, if I was homosexual, that'd be on the fucking table every second! Nobodae'd bat an eye!
To be fair, my eighteen-year-old girlfriend when I was thirty-two was an anal fiend (she was an anal virgin when I met her earlier in that year). Every day when she got home, I'd attack her and fuck her in the ass. As a bonus, she'd void her bladder all over me when she came....repeatedly. (She was in cowgirl position.) Then when I was done, she'd go in the bathroom and sit on a big black dong, and come some more. And she was a semi-petite 5'3''.
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