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# That's pretty much how I dealt with losing my dissertation about a week before hand in.
(, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:25, archived)
# FUCK
(, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:25, archived)
# It was only a Physics dissertation, 6000 words.
Managed to rewrite it in time, but it was pretty upsetting.
(, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:26, archived)
# I can very much imagine
At least you got it sorted but I very much felt for you in the moments first reading that
(, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:28, archived)
# I will not make the same mistake for my MSc project.
(, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:30, archived)
# i accidently deleted 30gigs of my life
i moved them from one h/d to another, didn't check to see if it had all moved (it hadn't) and i deleted it all
oh well - live and learn
(, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:36, archived)
# Ouch.
Lose anything serious?
(, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:39, archived)
# yes
all the pictures from 1996 upto 1998 and all my music etc etc - luckily enough i downloaded PCI file recovery and managed to get about 80% of it back
(, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:50, archived)
# What was it on?
(, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:32, archived)
# paper, probably
;)
(, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:33, archived)
# The effects of UV radiation,
so lots of atmospheric scattering/absorption, vitamin D production, and skin cancer type stuff.
(, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:34, archived)
# Sounds fun,
I have no idea what I'll do mine on
(, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:36, archived)
# It was alright.
Seeing as I was trying to get into Medical Physics afterwards, it seemed the best choice.
(, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:38, archived)
# aww, just buy another off the net ;)
(, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:26, archived)
# I probably should have done,
I didn't get a particularly good mark.
(, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:28, archived)
# eeep
i used to do incremental saves when i was doing my music tech a-level. ended up with about 1000 saves per completed piece.

but have stopped doing taht, probably will for my diss when i start it as it makes the most sense
(, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:26, archived)
# save it to disc as you go
it's worth doing for a few pennies, have also had
a throwing baby out with bathwater experience.
(, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:28, archived)
# well i'm not getting paid for owt i do on my pc
so i don't need to worry too much. and my next essay's only 3000 words

main thing with my Mus tech was that it was all sequencing, so if i fucked owt up it'd have been a bitch to go back and find out where
(, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:34, archived)
# another good trick is to set up an automated ftp task to your webserver
so that you can press a button and magically get an offsite backup every week

this is no good if you don't have any private directories on your webspace though
(, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:49, archived)
# You wrote your whole dissertation in one sitting without saving once?
(, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:27, archived)
# No, I'd been saving.
but word managed to crash and remove all traces of the file.
(, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:28, archived)
# ^this
although i'm told i managed to more or less delete word and all that went with it, and at the time i only had a floppy drive so saving stuff and getting stuff printed was a mare. if i wanted to write i'd have done english not an art degree.
(, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 15:31, archived)