What comes after P? Or V?
Here's a hot tip for you novice computer users out there: Know when to draw the line.
I was having trouble sleeping this evening (technically, I still am), so I thought I'd go on the internets to see what's going down. Oh, not a lot's going down. So at 4am, I decided to do some computer maintenance. This is where I should have drawn the line. Because I accidentally started erasing my Documents folder.
I have no idea how I managed to drag my entire Documents folder into the trash, nor why I decided to empty the trash just then, nor why I was recently thinking the Mac's lack of a confirmation step was a good thing, but when I saw the progress bar erasing hundreds of items instead of the four items I was expecting ... well, I hit "Cancel" pretty quickly.
I dragged my Documents folder out of the trash and looked inside. Seems everything after "Pics" was erased. And inside "Pics", everything after the letter "v" was erased. This is troubling because I have little recollection of what came after "Pics" in my Documents folder, or what pics I had that started with w through z. I'm pretty sure there was a folder named "School" containing a few old essays, and I'm pretty sure there was a folder called "Website" that contained various (you guessed it) website-related items, but I'm also pretty sure there had to be more.
Ah well. A little purge is good for the soul. And now having recounted all that, I think I'm ready for bed.
2 Comments:
Ok, we can fix this. First, we simply have to travel a few months into the future, grab the new version of Mac OS X along with its fancy new feature Time Machine, travel back to the day before you nuked your files, upgrade your OS, and then let history run its normal course. Of course we might end up violating the time space-time continuum or something like that, but it's probably worth the risk.
I'd be concerned about violating the Mac's EULA, more than anything. There must be something in there about installing the OS before the OS has been written.
You sound a little sure about this plan. Is it because of stunts like this that I get spam that's timestamped with years like 1906 and 2106?
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