Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Disk disaster - play by play
On Sunday, late at night, I finished my monster of a unit plan and realized I had no paper. So I saved my opus grandus to my trusty (or so I thought) memory stick and forgot to save it to do what I always do for insurance, email myself a copy. Off I went to teach. Well, at 12:35 pm, my disk came up empty. Nothing on my classroom computer. Nothing on my MAC when I got home, nothing on my LAUSD laptop. My dear neighbor who is IT specialist told me he'll be home at 7:00, but at 8 there was no sight of his car. I called my mom and then frantically called my friends to see if anyone could help. From 9 until 10:15 my neighbor had valiantly tried to recover files I foolishly did not back up. Scrambled is my webquest (thank got we uploaded it last week). Gone are my word files and powerpoint presentations. How much sleep did I have - 0. But my unit plan is done. Of course I would like to know why this happened. How did my memory stick got corrupted? Of course it came from LAUSD, so it should have been a warning. Well, I hope I survive today on no sleep and finish the lesson plan in time for today's class.
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I cannot believe you lost ALL files on the memory stick. I've never heard of such a thing being possible - corrupted memory stick?!@#!@#! What a frustrating ordeal you went through! Your sharing this vignette reminds me that we all must back up our files for every single important document, since, apparently, Murphy's Law applies to memory sticks too.
ReplyDeleteOMG! I know the feeling of missing any files or even losing a flash drive. I almost went mad when I thought I lost a flash drive at the library. that truly made my day.
ReplyDeleteI think we should all back up our files.