http://ask.metafilter.com/tags/filesdeleted Questions tagged with 'filesdeleted' at Ask MetaFilter. Sat, 18 Feb 2006 21:24:53 -0800 Sat, 18 Feb 2006 21:24:53 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://ask.metafilter.com/32902/Moron%2Ddoesn%2Dback%2Dup%2Dfiles Crap! I just lost ten years of writing by accident. No, it wasn't backed up. I'm a fucking moron. What happened was I accidentally renamed the documents folder while I was trying to rename another document (I was changing the extension to .xls). But, somehow, it renamed the documents folder. When I tried to rename it back to Documents, it wouldn't let me. It said, "You can't change the name of this" Which is fucked, because, it let me do it before. <br> <br> Anyway, just now, my computer froze and I had to shut it off. When I turned it back on, the xls was gone and the DOCUMENTS folder was back and all my documents were gone. All of them. How do I recover them? Did my powerbook delete all those files just because it shut down? Help, I'm sick over this. I know, I should back up, I didn't. I have some the documents somewhere on various cds, but most of them I don't have backed up anywhere. What do I do? tag:ask.metafilter.com,2006:site.32902 Sat, 18 Feb 2006 21:24:53 -0800 computer filesdeleted moron generic230