I spent most of yesterday working on a PowerPoint presentation for the local RSVP, only to have the file crash at the end of the day. Yeah, I saved often and after every major change. Yeah, I saved it two places, “just in case…”! Yet, inexplicably, something went wrong.
Maybe the file was too big for the memory stick. Whatever. Though it looked OK at the end where I was working, none of the illustrations (of which there were a couple hundred or so, I guess) showed in most of the earlier slides, just the text.
Of course, I have earlier versions of the file that are OK, just a day’s work short of where the one I was working on yesterday was when it crashed. I’m hoping the RSVP director has another copy of the file up to the point I started on it yesterday. Until I hear back from her, I am pretty much dead in the water.
I wonder if Dougy will let me hide in his box.
I’ve tried all the old tricks to try to revive the missing files. Of course, since I stupidly went over to Windows 10, I don’t know how to do certain easy things that I knew to do in earlier versions to return to earlier times and missing files. Progress.
I have windows 10 now and I have to say it changes our habits sometimes in an umpredictable way
Hopeful you will find again the missing part
In friendship
Michel
That’s a fact! I’m feeling a bit more comfortable with it, but it still doesn’t seem as friendly as earlier versions. We’ll see…!
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Do you use system restore on your computer? You maybe able to restore to point on day before it crashed and disappeared but accessing system restore on Windows XP was easy and no so difficult on Windows 7 but on 10 l have not checked out the situation.
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I couldn’t figure out how to get to this in Windows 10, which I only recently installed on my PC. Believe me, that was the first thing I tried to find once I realized I had this problem! I think I may have found it, finally and too late, but the presentation was completed using an earlier version the director had on her PC. It’s good to know you have this help available, though., It was great having in-house IT when I was working. When I retired, I learned several things the hard way because I had to. Incidentally, one of the things I learned from the IT at work was the recovery trick, only for XP and next the one after that.
Glad you got it sorted and back on track. Regards Ian
It was a couple hours’ work to restore the presentation to a usable state. Of course, I would much rather have had the job done the day before when I thought I was done, but that’s the wonderful world of computers for you!
Too cute!
Dougy wouldn’t share the box, of course….!
Hi Doug! Everybody needs a good box to hide in now and then. Cats have this one right! Hope you are able to recover your files. Good luck!
I wasn’t able to recover the whole file, but the director of the RSVP (for whom I’m doing this) had one thawt was close to done, so I was able to get the project done, if not the way it was yesterday. I think the end result may have been better, actually, because I had some time to stew on how to handle some technical and aesthetic issues.
I have heard a lot of people complaining about windows 10, and also a lot complaining about el captain from apple. i am sorry you lost your presentation.
It is a lot more cluttered (for my tastes) with crap I don’t want or need but have to scroll through to get to the useful stuff. Maybe people with touch screens will like it more or i-phones, whatever, but it’s tedious on a PC.
🙁 Doug, I’m so sorry. That goes a step beyond exasperating and frustrating. Hope it turns out well. Keep us posted…paws crossed for you my dear friend! Woof!
Fortunately, there was a mostly complete earlier version. I worked off that this morning, and all went well…so far! It is done, at least, and all that needs to be done now is to copy it to a memory stick when the director comes for it.I still have no idea what happened.
It’s like that with the new computers I think. Glad to hear all is well.
I think so, too.
Arrggghhhh … I feel your pain. Murphy’s Law. $h1+ Happens. Whatever. Arrggghhh!!!!!!!!!
What I hate is composing a really long elegant response in a web browser (on iPad Safari) – going to another website to check my facts or copy a URL – coming back and having the page refresh – loosing it all. The second attempt is MUCH shorter and less elegant. 🙂
I got through it using an older copy of the file that the director had on her PC. Fortunately, it was mostly complete to the point I was, so it took very little to finish what needed to be done.
Is it not saved in the downloads folder? I have not dared to try Windows 10 yet, how is that working for you other than having to relearn the simple stuff…
No, it wasn’t. I save things in several spots with the idea it will prevent this sort of catastrophe, buit what it doesn’t prevent is the catastrophe that comes of copuying a bad file onto a good one! I didn’t realize there was an issue until I had saved the bad file over the good one X three different places! It was not my happiest moment!
I’m not a fan of Windows 10. I suppose I will get used to it. i know I fought every change so far, so why think I’m going to get along with this newest OS right off!
Bummer. Change is never easy. I am sticking with Windows 7 for now…
I wish I had! Of course, I know I’ll eventually become a Windows 10 guy. I just hate that “burn in” phase, where I can'[t do simple things because I can’t find where they buried things in the new OS. Ugh! It used to be worse when I was working, though, because they’d install a new one on my computer, and I’d have to do my job blind till I figured out the new stuff.
That is the problem of getting used to a new OS. You need a vacation to get familiar with it otherwise you can’t function in the job you need it for :).
Amen!
My son clued me in to start10, which will restore the Windows 7 start up menu. I don’t know if that will be of any help to you. There’s a free trial to see if that’s what you want, and it’s only about $5 or$6 if you go ahead with it.
I’ll have to consider that. I can deal with the other stuff, but not knowing where they stuffed the important files is a tedious process of discovery.
Just what you don’t nee, Doug.
I did a major stress sleep last night, and feel very much better today! (Andy must feel less stressed today, too. He’s stretched out, tummy up, by my computer.)
I hope you were able to recover some of that!
Fortunately, there was an earlier version on file. It was far enough along that I didn’t have a great deal to redo, and some things I felt I did a better job of the second time through since I had more of a sense of how I visualized the presentation.