This is the thread for being angry when the computer eats your homework :(((

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I was banging away at this fucking huge proejct due at midnight tonight all day. At 11:40, I accidentally overwrote one file in the project with a 5 hour old version. So the old code and the new code don't work together AT ALL and the old didn't work much to begin with.

HOORAY FUCK

― NUMBER 1 TERRY RILEY FAN (ex machina), Monday, 26 April 2004 03:10 (twenty-two years ago)

thisone

― NUMBER 1 TERRY RILEY FAN (ex machina), Monday, 26 April 2004 03:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Thats gotta suck man :(

This is why I am super paranoid about doubling up my working files with diff names in a backup folder, tho I know thats no use to ya now :(

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 26 April 2004 03:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Yikes. Yeah, I have a super-robust backup strategy that's saved my skin 2938749243 times in the past few years. Multiple directories, multiple media, multiple physical locations. Buy a 10 pack of floppies and line your house with progressive backups. Take some to work/school.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 26 April 2004 03:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Wear them as a bright spring jacket! Just like Bernard Black.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 26 April 2004 03:36 (twenty-two years ago)

increment the file_names that you save under.

fuckingckt1
fuckingckt2
fuckingckt3
...

& so on. i think we once got up to fuckingckt25, but we were engineering dorks, so we were numbering in hex.

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Monday, 26 April 2004 05:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Computers are shit.

although i rather like mine now.

― Debito (Debito), Monday, 26 April 2004 05:01 (twenty-two years ago)

autosave, backup to a network share, backup to a cd, version version version, oh and don't use the .doc file format, it's not conducive to being recovered if corrupted. .rtf is acceptable, OpenOffice's XML based format is even better.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 26 April 2004 05:14 (twenty-two years ago)

if you're writing code and plan to continue with it after school then look into rcs, cvs or subversion or some other configuration management software. it'll let you keep the entire history of all your working files safe and let you rollback to a known good version if something goes wrong. the entire industry uses it in some form so getting your head around it early is a good thing.

vim and emacs can both be configured to make backup copies on every write - ':set backup on' in vim, somebody else will have to tell you the emacs version 8)

ed's otm about not using proprietary or compressed formats for backups because a one-bit error in such things can cause the entire document / archive to be lost.

email copies of things to a yahoo account for offsite backups.

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 26 April 2004 07:42 (twenty-two years ago)

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