Ever done anything embarrassing with a computer, like something very obvious  when you were using it or setting it up that later you had forgotten to do, or done in the wrong way?

I for one just did this week on Monday with learning the lesson of "BACK STUFF UP" or in my case not.......

I wiped my hard disk to put win 7 64 bit on.... It all went well. But........ I had made a fatal boo boo.. When I did the reinstall I was so sure I had backed up all the stuff I needed I find out later that I didn't check "My pictures" and lost all the copies of all the photo shoots I have done over the last 3 years........ I'm actually laughing about it now rather then crying.......

Not really. But you can likely recover most, if not all of those photos if you haven't written anything else to the hard drive.

thats funny actually for the first time a few days ago i thought about my computer breaking& losing all my pictures(..again) so i started moving them to sds

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The "cloud" is our friend  .  .  .  everything automatically backed up  .  .  .  of course, me just tryin' ta turn the danged computer on can be embarrassing  .  .  . 

SOS

To Unix people, We wrote an rdel script, similar in action to rdist.. and I used it on roughly  100 workstations as a superuser, instead of rdist 

To non Unix people. I deleted, with one key stroke a computer application from 100 workstations instead of updating it. It was an  oops moment.

Bought a Mac once.

Boy was my face red!

Back up early, back up often.

You should have a minimum of 3 copies of every file, 1 local working set of files, 1 local backup set of files, 1 off site backup set of files. Hard drives are cheap these days. I take it one step further and have a 4th set of files uploaded to an online data backup.

My company's owner sent an 'open letter' to business blogger he had a disagreement with.  Apparently he sent it to us only for informational purposes. 

I thought he wanted internal feedback, so I wrote a response critical of the blogger and his motives (with a few barbs) and replied all. 

I thought it was an internal list only.  Apparently the blogger was on the list. 

Blogger ended up publishing my comments.  Got his panties all in a bunch.  Brought more heat and attention on our owner. 

Somehow I escaped relatively unscathed.

I once deleted my Linux kernel by accident, back when it was a file stored in the root directory.

This was in 1994 or thereabouts.

Figured it out before I rebooted and managed to move the backup kernel into place.

Boy was I red!

# rm ./foo /*   (note the extra - and fatal - space)

instead of

$ rm ./foo/*

(yeah, I didn't notice that I was in a root shell )

Like accidentally deleting 45gb of negative scans at 4am in the morning?

Nope, never.

In college, i was running out of storage room on my computer (PC), so i was going through and deleting all the files I had that I didn't really need. I was also doing a potential virus clean out too-- and I somehow managed to completely screw the windows operating system by deleting an important file. Whoops I don't even remember exactly what it was- but my friend was all "you managed to do WHAT?"

What can I say? Whatever it was looked pretty useless.

I've been better since then