I'd like to be able to use remote desktop from my new computer into work, which means I needed to upgrade to a release of Vista that is higher than Home Premium. All was hunky dory until I logged in as me and got the message, "Preparing your desktop."
That's a euphemism for wiping your files, apparently unrecoverably.
OK, wiping mine are OK, because I have copies of most of them on the laptop and can download & regenerate the rest. The trouble is, Nibs' files got wiped in a similar fashion. No prob: I back her up daily to flash drives. (Yeah, I should have made a backup right before I upgraded, but didn't.)
Prob: unbeknownst to me, the last backup that actually ran was early Friday morning.
Bigger prob: she did an important interview later that day.
Punch line: remote desktop still doesn't work.
Yes, sure, I could have prevented this, but a warning or a recovery option would have been nice. All my apps and many of my settings made it through the upgrade unscathed. Why not my files somewhere?
Small yay: according to SETI@Home, I've crunched more numbers for them in the last month than I did in the previous eight years. That's a hundred-fold increase in compute power.
Death, taxes, and data loss.
That's a euphemism for wiping your files, apparently unrecoverably.
OK, wiping mine are OK, because I have copies of most of them on the laptop and can download & regenerate the rest. The trouble is, Nibs' files got wiped in a similar fashion. No prob: I back her up daily to flash drives. (Yeah, I should have made a backup right before I upgraded, but didn't.)
Prob: unbeknownst to me, the last backup that actually ran was early Friday morning.
Bigger prob: she did an important interview later that day.
Punch line: remote desktop still doesn't work.
Yes, sure, I could have prevented this, but a warning or a recovery option would have been nice. All my apps and many of my settings made it through the upgrade unscathed. Why not my files somewhere?
Small yay: according to SETI@Home, I've crunched more numbers for them in the last month than I did in the previous eight years. That's a hundred-fold increase in compute power.
Death, taxes, and data loss.
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Date: 2008-08-19 03:16 pm (UTC)From:Kinda makes you wish you could find the programmer responsible and "prepare" his face.
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Date: 2008-08-19 03:40 pm (UTC)From:Actually, it was the OS upgrade that wiped the files, but I think the same question still applies.
Kinda makes you wish you could find the programmer responsible and "prepare" his face.
I can get into his building now. He should fear me.
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Date: 2008-08-19 03:32 pm (UTC)From:It will have all your data.
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