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I spent an hour and a half today preparing work on stereotypes in fairytales for my year 9 English class. And now its all gone. It's not on my USB stick. My only hope is that it's on the school computer. Or im screwed for tomorrow. I lost my stereotypes definition that I painstakingly worked on for half an hour to ensure it was comprehensible to my class.

*sobs loudly* HELP!!!

I guess you could wing it.
Ask the students to get into groups and think of as many fairy tales as they can. Then describe the characters in each. See if they can find a common thread between the tales/characters. Ask them to think of why that is.
That should take up a fair bit of class time.

go punch a wall. and burn your USB stick.

or look again cos you could just be missing it

I guess you could wing it.
Ask the students to get into groups and think of as many fairy tales as they can. Then describe the characters in each. See if they can find a common thread between the tales/characters. Ask them to think of why that is.
That should take up a fair bit of class time.

My kids don't do groupwork. They don't play nicely with others. the rest is good though.

I spent an hour and a half today preparing work on stereotypes in fairytales for my year 9 English class. And now its all gone. It's not on my USB stick. My only hope is that it's on the school computer. Or im screwed for tomorrow. I lost my stereotypes definition that I painstakingly worked on for half an hour to ensure it was comprehensible to my class.

*sobs loudly* HELP!!!if you're lucky, it would be on the computer you were using.

if not, I suggest writing out the points you were making and wing it.

then sign up for a speech class and learn how to do Impromptu speaking.

a skill I'm glad I learned.

go punch a wall. and burn your USB stick.

or look again cos you could just be missing it

I'm doing the first one. right now. my hand hurts.

if you're lucky, it would be on the computer you were using.

if not, I suggest writing out the points you were making and wing it.

then sign up for a speech class and learn how to do Impromptu speaking.

a skill I'm glad I learned.

I'm hoping its on the computer. And I'm redoing the work now.

I remember impromptu speaking from the bad old days of competition debating and public speaking. *shudder*

Go on google and look for data recovery tools. Download one and use it on your pen drive. If your file was deleted then it will recover it. One other thing that is could be is the problem that when your computer says it has saved the file to the pen drive it hasn't. All it has done is converted it to RAM, which it then uses to save. The computer has done everything it needs to, but the file will take a little while longer to save. If it is just text, then you would have had to pull it out ridiculously fast to have done this, but if there are a number of pictures there could be a half second gap, or more. If this is the problem, then it should be on the school computer. If you deleted it on the school computer, use the afforementioned data recovery tool to get it back. Good luck.

Thanks Moto, I'll try that! ;)

One thing to remember with USB sticks when using Windows - use the "Safely remove hardware" before pulling the USB stick out of the USB plug. Since they use volatile flash memory, any changes made to the stick without proper removal can be lost.

I have a sad feeling this is where my problem lies.

That is only a problem regarding what I said earlier about their saving method. It is just a way of checking that it isn't still saving. The rest of the time no damage will be done by just removing it.

I have a sad feeling this is where my problem lies.

Basically saving things to hard drive is pretty permanent, but saving to removal media like a flash drive is not. That's why Windows has the special "Safely remove hardware" feature.

Let's hope you copied the file from hard drive to the flash drive. If you moved it, then it's gone unless someone undeletes it on the PC (special software required).

As a rule, I always make sure Window releases the drive before removal.

I spent an hour and a half today preparing work on stereotypes in fairytales for my year 9 English class. And now its all gone. It's not on my USB stick. My only hope is that it's on the school computer. Or im screwed for tomorrow. I lost my stereotypes definition that I painstakingly worked on for half an hour to ensure it was comprehensible to my class.

*sobs loudly* HELP!!!

As it's not on your stick the only other place to look is on the computer. As very few people ever delete anything they have created from their hard drive, that’s where it will be. Failing that though, it will be on the backup drive you created no?
:p

Eh, I lost three nearly-finished 2000 word essays last year when my hard drive decided to implode. I'm afraid all my sympathy for other people suffering moments like this turned to murderous seething rage back then. Sorry. :p

Eh, I lost three nearly-finished 2000 word essays last year when my hard drive decided to implode. I'm afraid all my sympathy for other people suffering moments like this turned to murderous seething rage back then. Sorry. :p

I lost 3Gb of MP3s on one hard drive ...

I lost 3Gb of MP3s on one hard drive ...
I lost ALL my MP3's... and since I was at work at the time... I couldn't even have the therapy of screaming. :(

I am really thinking that it's on the school computer. I'm useless with computers, and usually print everything out. But I didn't today because the printer was broken. Thanks for your sympathy and help guys.

Well, except for kanabia, but, I get you. Believe me, I understand. ;)

I am really thinking that it's on the school computer. I'm useless with computers, and usually print everything out. But I didn't today because the printer was broken. Thanks for your sympathy and help guys.

Well, except for kanabia, but, I get you. Believe me, I understand. ;)

At least you're using flash drives which are much better than floppy disks when I started with PCs.
Your average floppy disk lasts a few years.

I lost 3Gb of MP3s on one hard drive ...
i lost 25 gigs of music. last may. just after i got out of hospital.
it was a great week.


and i feel like i'm going to cry too :(

i lost 25 gigs of music. last may. just after i got out of hospital.
it was a great week.


and i feel like i'm going to cry too :(
I lost 7 gig once, when I caught a nasty virus and had to reformat the HDD.
I tired to be postive about it and enjoyed the act of trawling through the bittorrent sites looking for the music I'd lost.



Ok, I know I was fooling myself, but it almost worked.

If you're lucky it might still be on your computer. Or, open up word again and it might recover it(hopefully). This happened to me on a paper I had to do and I recovered the first page, but I had typed 4.:eek:
I now save after every paragraph
BTW do you live in Chicago?

Ha.

Ha.

At your face.

Loudly.

Ha.

Ha.

At your face.

Loudly.

Ah, schadenfreude.

Best of luck to you, Saint Jade.

I lost 3Gb of MP3s on one hard drive ...
3GB? Weak. I have a hundred. :p

if you're lucky, it would be on the computer you were using.

if not, I suggest writing out the points you were making and wing it.

then sign up for a speech class and learn how to do Impromptu speaking.

a skill I'm glad I learned.
Impromptu speaking isn't a skill that needs to be taught. The massive amounts of adrenalin corsing through one's body as you walk on stage knowing you haven't a fucking clue as to what you're going to say usually helps enormously.
Some of my best classes have been the 3-step ones.
You know, the 3 steps before opening the door to the classroom is where you think about what you're going to teach.

I always keep at least two copies of anything important I need, printing it out if I have too. Really saves on these kinds of troubles down the road ;) :D

poor u, i say give them a word find and then let them screw around or give them a mindless book-task and ignore what ever goes on that lesson. (unless its a double THEN ur screwed)

P.S im yr 9

poor u, i say give them a word find and then let them screw around or give them a mindless book-task and ignore what ever goes on that lesson. (unless its a double THEN ur screwed)

P.S im yr 9
Man, what school did you go to? I'm sure I taught you!

I spent an hour and a half today preparing work on stereotypes in fairytales for my year 9 English class. And now its all gone. It's not on my USB stick. My only hope is that it's on the school computer. Or im screwed for tomorrow. I lost my stereotypes definition that I painstakingly worked on for half an hour to ensure it was comprehensible to my class.

*sobs loudly* HELP!!!

shit happens...but honestly...your going to forget about it 10 years from now..truly meaningless...so smile..deal with it and move on.!

i was once shot..i thought it was the end of my world,it screwed me for college...jobs..etc..best thing that ever happenned..

i thought my world was crashing down and it was over...10 years later..i laugh about it..best thing that ever happenned to me.

what dont kill you makes you stronger..truly!

sucks for now..and always strive to be the best you can,but shit happens...and nothing is going to change that.

just enjoy your life...and enjoy the ride.

also..try harder not to fuck up..lol..i am sure you will.

shit happens...but honestly...your going to forget about it 10 years from now..truly meaningless...so smile..deal with it and move on.!

i was once shot..i thought it was the end of my world,it screwed me for college...jobs..etc..best thing that ever happenned..

i thought my world was crashing down and it was over...10 years later..i laugh about it..best thing that ever happenned to me.

what dont kill you makes you stronger..truly!

sucks for now..and always strive to be the best you can,but shit happens...and nothing is going to change that.

just enjoy your life...and enjoy the ride.

also..try harder not to fuck up..lol..i am sure you will.

nice quotes and i go 2 willunga high (S.A AUS)

[QUOTE=Demented Hamsters]I guess you could wing it. [QUOTE]
That ploy is only so effective, and certainly isn't unlimited...

I guess you could wing it.
That ploy is only so effective, and certainly isn't unlimited...
Speak for yourself. I've spent my entire career winging it. So much so, I sometimes think I'm a bird. Sqwark!

I spent an hour and a half today preparing work on stereotypes in fairytales for my year 9 English class. And now its all gone. It's not on my USB stick. My only hope is that it's on the school computer. Or im screwed for tomorrow. I lost my stereotypes definition that I painstakingly worked on for half an hour to ensure it was comprehensible to my class.

*sobs loudly* HELP!!!

does a heartfelt hug help?

if it does.....big hug:fluffle:

Go on google and look for data recovery tools. Download one and use it on your pen drive. If your file was deleted then it will recover it. One other thing that is could be is the problem that when your computer says it has saved the file to the pen drive it hasn't. All it has done is converted it to RAM, which it then uses to save. The computer has done everything it needs to, but the file will take a little while longer to save. If it is just text, then you would have had to pull it out ridiculously fast to have done this, but if there are a number of pictures there could be a half second gap, or more. If this is the problem, then it should be on the school computer. If you deleted it on the school computer, use the afforementioned data recovery tool to get it back. Good luck.


Thou truly are't Moto the Wise. *nods*