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Originally Posted by Bomberofdoom
Ever know this feeling.... That you've just never have been any more depressed in your life when you accidently overwrite a 35 page doc file of reflection of your previous year in FIRST you wrote about a week ago?
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Uhmmm, yeah. It is very similar to the feeling you get when you hear the hard drive with the one and only copy of eleven years worth of your research data start going "gggrrrrcccchhhrrruuuunnnccchhhhh!." It is similar to the feeling that you get when you realize you just heard the sound of your entire grad school career being trashed, and you drop out of grad school for a decade because it takes that long to work up the internal will to start all over again. It is very similar to the feeling that makes you smack yourself really, really hard in the forehead for not listening to all those stories about horrific disk drive failures, and thinking that "it will never happen to me," and failing to learn from the mistakes of others.
Please, nobody make the same error. Learn from these mistakes. Backup your work - often.
-dave