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[active_apathy]

Ah, Windows.

This morning I woke up, and shambled over to my PC. I pressed the power button, and I waited for it to dutifully kick up a login screen. As with every other day, I type in my password at a pace that leaves the keys reeling from the shock.

And then, I see a friendly, helpful message along these lines:

"Your profile appears to be corrupted and cannot be restored. Please contact your system "

Fun, fun. This isn't new, and it's something that's generally pretty trivial to deal with. What it's usually supposed to do is back up the corrupted profile to '%profile dir%/user-name-here.bak/crunchy-backed-up-files.here'

Today, just to be windows irksome it decided that it didn't want to make backups, nor did it seem content to leave the files where they were - the net result being that all the data that makes up my files are still -somewhere-, except the system doesn't know where it is... and the drive itself is hopelessly fragmented at present (save early, save often? No! Defrag early, defrag often). What this means is that rather a lot of stuff is gone - my documents, my half-edited forum code, my Hanged Man character, my collection of classic IF titles, my Firefox extensions, my bookmarks, my collection of shortcuts, a small arsenal of install files, a few bits and pieces of web software, a pile of special occasion logos swiped from Google, the bones of my next couple of articles on the WotC Character Development boards and countless other bits and pieces I'll regret the lack of over the coming days.

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[suitcasegnome.livejournal.com]

*Huggs* You poor darling. :(