All Gone

Nan_PA_6b · March 17, 2018

My beautiful spreadsheet program with ALL my gardening data, research, planning, EVERYTHING is gone.

My husband ran recovery software and the data is gone.

I don't even have this year's grow list. I'll have to get it from my posts at TV.

I have a backup from November I'll have to rebuild from.

Nan

Goodloe · March 17, 2018

That's AWFUL! What happened?

Nan_PA_6b · March 17, 2018

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Originally Posted by Goodloe

That's AWFUL! What happened?

Computer Vera* started acting up yesterday, freezing. My spreadsheet is always open.

Today she was freezing again, so I closed everything and re-started. A lot of updates happened, including Open Office, which includes my spreadsheet. I tried to call it up and OO said my spreadsheet was corrupted. No problem, right? Just use recovery software. No good. The spreadsheet, which should have had 3000 KB, had 600-some.

I've gone back to my November backup. It is more complete than I'd remembered. I've reconstructed my grow list and re-done some of the statistical calculations that were in there. I guess my work is cut out for me.

This WILL teach me to back up once a month or more.

Nan

*Named from the old Firefly series.

rhines81 · March 17, 2018

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Originally Posted by Nan_PA_6b

My beautiful spreadsheet program with ALL my gardening data, research, planning, EVERYTHING is gone.

My husband ran recovery software and the data is gone.

I don't even have this year's grow list. I'll have to get it from my posts at TV.

I have a backup from November I'll have to rebuild from.

Nan

rhines81 · March 17, 2018

Sorry, but as an afterthought (and yes things like this have happened to me before)..... Sometimes if a file contains hard to recover information or live data ... I will email it to myself every so often so there is always a trace of it off of my local hard drive. I use several different computers, so this also allows me to log into my email from anywhere and see the info.

AlittleSalt · March 17, 2018

That is awful. I hope that your November data is more complete than you remember.

PhilaGardener · March 17, 2018

Sorry to hear this! Maybe next week's snows will be a good time to just sit inside and think out your plans for this coming season!

taboule · March 17, 2018

Sorry to see that Nan. Although I am not too keen on excessive technology, leaving critical data such as planting records on "the could", such as Google Drive or MS Onedrive is a good thing -along with simpler approaches such as mentioned. Best wishes so you remember or recover most of it.

Al@NC · March 18, 2018

Yes, it's a painful lesson indeed. I've resorted to Google Docs because I was bitten before as well...

Al

MissS · March 18, 2018

I'm glad that you could reconstruct your files. Not only do I try to back mine up occasionally, I also email it to myself so that I can access it from any computer.

AlittleSalt · March 18, 2018

I'm even outdated for computers

...I use MS Word 2003. I don't lose anything, but I forget what I call it.

MissS · March 18, 2018

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Originally Posted by AlittleSalt

I'm even outdated for computers

...I use MS Word 2003. I don't lose anything, but I forget what I call it.

How about "Tomatoes" or "Garden"?

AlittleSalt · March 18, 2018

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Originally Posted by MissS

How about "Tomatoes" or "Garden"?

no my Word Documents often are named by Tomatoville members' Tomatoville nicknames and sometimes by their real names. and...what was I saying?

statesman · March 18, 2018

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Originally Posted by AlittleSalt

I'm even outdated for computers

...I use MS Word 2003. I don't lose anything, but I forget what I call it.

I'm still using Office 2003 on my XP laptop. I guess that makes me outdated too.

Spartanburg123 · March 18, 2018

This just sucks!! I had a similar issue when my laptop was stolen in Belgium- I had not backed up my files. Egads! Now, I have a little thumb drive plugged in and I save things pretty regularly. Sorry to hear this!

March 17, 2018	#1
Nan_PA_6b Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2016 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 3,194	All Gone My beautiful spreadsheet program with ALL my gardening data, research, planning, EVERYTHING is gone. My husband ran recovery software and the data is gone. I don't even have this year's grow list. I'll have to get it from my posts at TV. I have a backup from November I'll have to rebuild from. Nan

March 17, 2018	#2
Goodloe Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2018 Location: Steens, MS 8a Posts: 410	That's AWFUL! What happened? __________________ ~Jon~ Downheah, Mississippi

March 18, 2018	#10
MissS Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin Posts: 3,150	I'm glad that you could reconstruct your files. Not only do I try to back mine up occasionally, I also email it to myself so that I can access it from any computer. __________________ ~ Patti ~

March 17, 2018	#5
rhines81 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Zone 5A, Poconos Posts: 959	Sorry, but as an afterthought (and yes things like this have happened to me before)..... Sometimes if a file contains hard to recover information or live data ... I will email it to myself every so often so there is always a trace of it off of my local hard drive. I use several different computers, so this also allows me to log into my email from anywhere and see the info.

March 17, 2018	#6
AlittleSalt BANNED FOR LIFE Join Date: May 2014 Posts: 13,333	That is awful. I hope that your November data is more complete than you remember.

March 17, 2018	#7
PhilaGardener Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Near Philadelphia, PA Posts: 1,940	Sorry to hear this! Maybe next week's snows will be a good time to just sit inside and think out your plans for this coming season!

March 17, 2018	#8
taboule Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: MA Posts: 903	Sorry to see that Nan. Although I am not too keen on excessive technology, leaving critical data such as planting records on "the could", such as Google Drive or MS Onedrive is a good thing -along with simpler approaches such as mentioned. Best wishes so you remember or recover most of it.

March 18, 2018	#9
Al@NC Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Vernon, BC Posts: 720	Yes, it's a painful lesson indeed. I've resorted to Google Docs because I was bitten before as well... Al

March 18, 2018	#11
AlittleSalt BANNED FOR LIFE Join Date: May 2014 Posts: 13,333	I'm even outdated for computers ...I use MS Word 2003. I don't lose anything, but I forget what I call it.

March 18, 2018	#15
Spartanburg123 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: Spartanburg, SC Posts: 1,262	This just sucks!! I had a similar issue when my laptop was stolen in Belgium- I had not backed up my files. Egads! Now, I have a little thumb drive plugged in and I save things pretty regularly. Sorry to hear this!