Bad start to a work day (and lockpicking)
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chrisvenusSo I come into work this morning ready to finish off the documentation I spent large chunks of yesterday doing. Where did I save it? Ah well, I know I did and word will have it in its recent documents... Nope...
Hmmm...
Turns out that I downloaded it from our sharepoint site through firefox which saved it in a temp folder when I asked for it to be opened. I made huge amounts of edits and just hit save. I then closed word. I then closed firefox. Firefox then cleaned up all its temporary files including the one that I'd spent about four hours editing. All my changes are gone. Not even in the recycle bin.
If anybody has a great idea for data recovery then I'm all ears. Otherwise I'm just goign to be grouchy all day. And yes, I know its my fault. I would have liked word to say "Seriously dude, temp file. If you're going to save do it somewhere sensible" or for Firefox to say "Hang on, this here file that I've got marked for deletion has changed since last time I touched it. Maybe I shouldn't delete it". Most of all I'd have liked my brain to say "If you're making serious edits then don't just randomly open it, save it somewhere first."
Ah well, hindsight is 20/20.
In other news I am getting an urge to learn to lockpick properly. Or at least to do simple pin locks. http://www.locksmith-tools.co.uk/ sell stuff including practice locks. The training stuff is quite expensive though. I do quite like the look of the training boards they have though which might make life a bit easier than practicing with a random lock in your hand or something... Anybody ever bought stuff just to practice lock picking before and able to advise me on cheaper ways to do it? I'm tempted to just go into a lock shop and ask for their cheapest, shittest, lock. :)
P.S. Yes, I am just trying to get more skills on my character sheet. Plus it looks quite interesting.
Hmmm...
Turns out that I downloaded it from our sharepoint site through firefox which saved it in a temp folder when I asked for it to be opened. I made huge amounts of edits and just hit save. I then closed word. I then closed firefox. Firefox then cleaned up all its temporary files including the one that I'd spent about four hours editing. All my changes are gone. Not even in the recycle bin.
If anybody has a great idea for data recovery then I'm all ears. Otherwise I'm just goign to be grouchy all day. And yes, I know its my fault. I would have liked word to say "Seriously dude, temp file. If you're going to save do it somewhere sensible" or for Firefox to say "Hang on, this here file that I've got marked for deletion has changed since last time I touched it. Maybe I shouldn't delete it". Most of all I'd have liked my brain to say "If you're making serious edits then don't just randomly open it, save it somewhere first."
Ah well, hindsight is 20/20.
In other news I am getting an urge to learn to lockpick properly. Or at least to do simple pin locks. http://www.locksmith-tools.co.uk/ sell stuff including practice locks. The training stuff is quite expensive though. I do quite like the look of the training boards they have though which might make life a bit easier than practicing with a random lock in your hand or something... Anybody ever bought stuff just to practice lock picking before and able to advise me on cheaper ways to do it? I'm tempted to just go into a lock shop and ask for their cheapest, shittest, lock. :)
P.S. Yes, I am just trying to get more skills on my character sheet. Plus it looks quite interesting.
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Date: 2007-03-30 09:43 am (UTC)http://www.gregmiller.net/locks/mitguide/
In fact http://www.gregmiller.net/locks/ looks handy generally.
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Date: 2007-03-30 09:48 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-03-30 10:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-03-30 10:12 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-03-30 11:21 am (UTC)Sharepoint
Date: 2007-03-30 03:10 pm (UTC)Collaboration suite doesn't have the HTML preview option: it just goes straight to downloading (and therefore opening in word). Since it also provides a webdav interface, it's really easy for the user to get confused.
One of our conclusions here is that the browser should mark everything it downloads as read-only, unless you explicitly go through the save dialogue. And/Or when the browser closes, before it deletes the temporary downloads, it ought to check through the list, and see whether any of them have been modified...
Re: Sharepoint
Date: 2007-03-30 03:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-01 11:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-02 12:00 am (UTC)