Friday, October 2, 2009

Computers..as smart as you want them to be..

I should start with a warning. Computers are made to help human beings but they do so till you use your mind. Once you start behaving like a dog to it, it will do the same to you. A warning, never select all the files together for Shift Delete. Check once before you take this drastic step. Trust me shit happens.
I had numerous numbers of files saved on my desktop, mostly the ones on which I was working on currently. And 90% of them were important with only few of them having backup. I was just checking them one by one and was simultaneously transferring photos from my mobile to laptop and vice versa. Songs were on VLC player and was also copying the files on a pen drive. So technically, lots of things were happening simultaneously. When you are doing something like that, just forget to reorganize things because that what I thought and I am in deep shit now. I copied some files here and deleted some from there. The process continued till I accidently opened the ‘Recently changed’ folder and saw that most of the icons were shortcuts so better to delete them as they might be affecting the system performance. Selected all and SHIFT DELETE. Boom!!!!
Once I came back on the desktop I realized that few files were missing. As those files (which were not in a folder on desktop) were less important, I was ok. I then opened the ‘Draft Blog’ folder in ‘My documents’ and both the important blogs were missing. Came back on desktop and opened the important folders, Damn, all the latest files were missing. Suddenly I realized that I did some real stupid act. Ideally I should not have been writing about this on this blog, but then I want you to act little smart unlike me. Now looking for software to recover. Pray for me!!!