i accidentally deleted a post thinking it was just a draft, it was just a copy and i already published it. i didn't know i have deleted it for good. it happened already to the same post last night. i tried to click on back button hoping that the page will for heaven's sake be displayed (cache) and viola there it was. i don't want to recall all that i had written since my memory is as good as a lizard. i copied the entry paste it on textedit (apple equivalent to notepad) and saved it. i simply clicked published the post on the other hand and it was saved.
now this morning i checked my drafts to see if i need to publish some of them and i saw the same blog title. i checked on the box and pressed the delete option. maybe i was just not sure if i really opened the drafts or the published posts. i visited my site and the post was gone. sure enough i opened the published posts and just deleted again my entry. i was in shocked. i already forgotten those lines i had written the last night but then i remembered i have a copy in the text editor. god saved the king!
i couldn't rely on my brain alone. sometimes you need a help and it comes in different forms. mine is backing-up.
and speaking of backing-up another incident will beat what just had happened. i have a canon ixus 800. i visited my dysfunctional family in the province and got in for some adventures. we have gone fishing, to the woods and then of course we hit the beach. all these moments were captured. normally what i would do when i get back to the city is to copy the pics in my portable drive (as a backup) before uploading in my multiply account. that day i forgot the drive so i just went ahead and inserted the sd to a card reader, plugged the reader into the laptop (not mine) and lo and behold the pics were gone! i didn't know that the laptop was infected by a virus. i tried inserting the sd back into the digicam hoping that i could still see my pics and what had just happened was a joke. but everything was gone. the files were already corrupted.
i seek for help but all they could advise was to use some software which i couldn't download completely without paying. no, i need a free software. i won't pay a single dime. there must be some application software out there who could perform this task of retrieving my corrupted files. and so i googled for it. its like a treasure hunting for me. i tried everything but none of them seems to do what i need them to do. and then finally i came across this one called testdisk 6.x. i run the program meticulously following the instructions (with screenshots) and finally all the files missing were there. its like i was seeing dead person coming back to life! and there's more. even the files i deleted and the files i had prior to formatting was even recovered. amazing. do you know inoue orihime (bleach)? its like her powers but this one is real for real people.
TestDisk is a free software data recovery utility licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). It was primarily designed to help recover lost data storagepartitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally erasing a partition table).(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
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by the way this was developed by Christophe Grenier. thanks to you man. i owe you one.
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