the tao of OS upgrades

[sistawendy]

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.

Comments

[darkmane.livejournal.com]

Check the Documents folder for a second one with the same username you have, it is probably the original and they created a second user account during the upgrade for some stupid reason.

It will have all your data.