Horrors. I had a category in my Favorites entitled, "Food and
Recipes". I must have had a gazillion links.

All gone. Vanished without a trace. Somehow, and I've no idea how, I
must have wiped out the whole darned category.
Spit.

Dora

--

limey wrote:
>
> Horrors. I had a category in my Favorites entitled, "Food and
> Recipes". I must have had a gazillion links.
>
> All gone. Vanished without a trace. Somehow, and I've no idea how, I
> must have wiped out the whole darned category.
> Spit.
>
> Dora
>
> --
>

Ouch. I hate it when that happens. Look in the recycled bin. You may
be able to recover them. Good luck.

Sky

limey said...

> Horrors. I had a category in my Favorites entitled, "Food and
> Recipes". I must have had a gazillion links.
>
> All gone. Vanished without a trace. Somehow, and I've no idea how, I
> must have wiped out the whole darned category.
> Spit.
>
> Dora


Dora,

Don't know which browser you use. If I were you I'd at least search for
*.BAK files. You never know.

RATS!

Andy

"limey" > wrote:
> Horrors. I had a category in my Favorites entitled, "Food and Recipes".
> I must have had a gazillion links.
>
> All gone. Vanished without a trace. Somehow, and I've no idea how, I
> must have wiped out the whole darned category.
> Spit.
>
> Dora

Sometimes that kind of thing happens to me. What I have done is accidently
moved the folder to inside another folder. If the other folder isn't opened,
it's not obvious what happened. If you do find it in there, you just move it
back out.

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"limey" > wrote:
> Horrors. * I had a category in my Favorites entitled, "Food and
> Recipes". *I must have had a gazillion links.
>
> All gone. *Vanished without a trace. *Somehow, and I've no idea how, I
> must have wiped out the whole darned category.
> Spit.


It could be right there inside another folder... sometimes when
hastily shuffling items a folder accidently gets dragged and dropped
inside another... look through all your other bookmarked folders.
Also, if it's enabled on your PC you can try "Restore"... how long ago
did you notice your recipe folder was gone, just restore back a few
days/weeks to a prior date... this may work... you may lose a few
recently saved items but you'll probably remember those and then put
them back.

Good luck.

Sheldon

limey wrote:
> Horrors. I had a category in my Favorites entitled, "Food and
> Recipes". I must have had a gazillion links.
>
> All gone. Vanished without a trace. Somehow, and I've no idea how, I
> must have wiped out the whole darned category.
> Spit.
>
> Dora
>


You have my sympathy.

I did something similar last week. I changed "Save incoming messages"
from "never delete" to "save for 30 days". As a result all of my saved
emails and Usenet information that was filed neatly in folders has
disappeared if it was more than 30 days old. (That might be what i
SAID, but not what I MEANT! Whine.) I quickly changed the setting back.

gloria p

On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 19:48:16 GMT, "limey" > wrote:

>Horrors. I had a category in my Favorites entitled, "Food and
>Recipes". I must have had a gazillion links.
>
>All gone. Vanished without a trace. Somehow, and I've no idea how, I
>must have wiped out the whole darned category.
>Spit.
>

Well, at least you have a "snowball's chance" of finding your
favorites. I had two hard drives die in two years - they were my home
computer. Scads of recipes just went poof with each lost HD. I'm not
saving as much to hard drive these days.

Computers can be weird. I moved classrooms this year. When my
computer was hooked up in the Fall.... my desktop had completely
disappeared. I had lots of things stored on the desktop. Stuff I
didn't consider important enough for a file on C:, but I used all the
quite a bit. Gone, gone, gone. the school IT couldn't find it, the
district IT couldn't find it. Poof, gone. Sigh.

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On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 19:48:16 GMT, "limey" > wrote:

>Horrors. I had a category in my Favorites entitled, "Food and
>Recipes". I must have had a gazillion links.
>
>All gone. Vanished without a trace. Somehow, and I've no idea how, I
>must have wiped out the whole darned category.
>Spit.

If you have a cd burner, consider backing up your important data to
cd's. Sooner or later, a hard drive will die. If you don't have
backups, you'll have to just start over. I use an external hard
drive on my USB2 port and use a program called Acronis True Image to
make complete disk images (backups) every few days. So far, I've not
lost any serious amount of data, and I have some data files dating
from 1989 still on my system. ::knocking on wood::

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Zilbandy

said...

> On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 19:48:16 GMT, "limey" > wrote:
>
>>Horrors. I had a category in my Favorites entitled, "Food and
>>Recipes". I must have had a gazillion links.
>>
>>All gone. Vanished without a trace. Somehow, and I've no idea how, I
>>must have wiped out the whole darned category.
>>Spit.
>>
>
> Well, at least you have a "snowball's chance" of finding your
> favorites. I had two hard drives die in two years - they were my home
> computer. Scads of recipes just went poof with each lost HD. I'm not
> saving as much to hard drive these days.
>
> Computers can be weird. I moved classrooms this year. When my
> computer was hooked up in the Fall.... my desktop had completely
> disappeared. I had lots of things stored on the desktop. Stuff I
> didn't consider important enough for a file on C:, but I used all the
> quite a bit. Gone, gone, gone. the school IT couldn't find it, the
> district IT couldn't find it. Poof, gone. Sigh.


Wasn't it Neil Sadaka who sang:

Backing Up Is Hard To Do?

I backup all my critical files onto one of my camera's 2 Gb memory cards.
All my recipes, email folders, bookmarks, private encrypted files, etc.
There's still plenty of room left to take photos. Nice to have them with me
all the time I'm away from the 'puter.

Andy

Zilbandy > wrote in
:

> On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 19:48:16 GMT, "limey" >
> wrote:
>
>>Horrors. I had a category in my Favorites entitled, "Food
>>and Recipes". I must have had a gazillion links.
>>
>>All gone. Vanished without a trace. Somehow, and I've no
>>idea how, I must have wiped out the whole darned category.
>>Spit.
>
> If you have a cd burner, consider backing up your important
> data to cd's. Sooner or later, a hard drive will die. If you
> don't have backups, you'll have to just start over. I use
> an external hard drive on my USB2 port and use a program
> called Acronis True Image to make complete disk images
> (backups) every few days. So far, I've not lost any serious
> amount of data, and I have some data files dating from 1989
> still on my system. ::knocking on wood::

SO TRUE!

limey wrote:
>
> All gone. Vanished without a trace. Somehow, and I've
> no idea how, I must have wiped out the whole darned category.

I got a lot more diligent about backups ever since
I bought a USB memory stick. That makes backups
so much easier and faster. I got it on sale,
only about $20 (after rebate) for a 1 GB Sony
Microvault. I'm amazed that so much memory is
available so cheaply, and it gets cheaper every
day. There's currently a glut of flash memory
chips on the market, which is likely to get worse
(better, for consumers) over the next year.

limey wrote:
> Horrors. I had a category in my Favorites entitled, "Food and
> Recipes". I must have had a gazillion links.
>
> All gone. Vanished without a trace. Somehow, and I've no idea how, I
> must have wiped out the whole darned category.
> Spit.
>
> Dora

Any idea when they disappeared? You may be able to get them back by
changing the system restore point back a few weeks (you won't lose any
current data by doing this). Click Start > All Programs > Accessories >
System Tools > System Restore. Select the option Restore My Computer to an
Earlier Time.

Jill

Mark Thorson wrote:
> limey wrote:
>> All gone. Vanished without a trace. Somehow, and I've
>> no idea how, I must have wiped out the whole darned category.
>
> I got a lot more diligent about backups ever since
> I bought a USB memory stick. That makes backups
> so much easier and faster. I got it on sale,
> only about $20 (after rebate) for a 1 GB Sony
> Microvault. I'm amazed that so much memory is
> available so cheaply, and it gets cheaper every
> day. There's currently a glut of flash memory
> chips on the market, which is likely to get worse
> (better, for consumers) over the next year.

I've had my bacon saved (obfood? lol) more times than I can recall
because I utilize online backups now. Especially with banking and
professional documents I can't afford to lose.
It is a HUGE weight off my mind. The backups take place pretty much on
their own so it doesn't require any effort on my part. <whew!>

On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 17:02:02 -0500, Andy <q> wrote:

>I backup all my critical files onto one of my camera's 2 Gb memory cards.
>All my recipes, email folders, bookmarks, private encrypted files, etc.
>There's still plenty of room left to take photos. Nice to have them with me
>all the time I'm away from the 'puter.

Not a bad idea! John just presented me with a 1 Gb card but I've never
come anywhere near filling up the smaller ones when I was using them -
about the only way it'll ever end up FULL is if we take a month-long
vacation!

Andy wrote:

> I backup all my critical files onto one of my camera's 2 Gb memory
> cards. All my recipes, email folders, bookmarks, private encrypted
> files, etc. There's still plenty of room left to take photos. Nice to
> have them with me all the time I'm away from the 'puter.
>
> Andy

Now that's a great idea!

Dora

Update:

Tried everything I could think of and most of your kind suggestions
(those I was capable of doing). Some call these "bookmarks"; I call
them Favorites.

Anyway, I'm doing a pretty tedious recovery. When I changed computers I
backed up Favorites and other vital information to discs. When I bought
the new computer, I found the systems weren't compatible and I couldn't
open the CDs. My husband could, however, but all he was able to do was
print out the links themselves.

I'm doing now what I did then - laboriously opening every link to see if
I want to keep it or not. Of course, I still have lost the newer ones
but at least I have something.

I haven't been backing up as much, since the burning setup on this
computer is really weird. Now *that's* the techie I'd like to meet.

I really appreciate everyone's suggestions (and sympathy).

Dora

limey wrote:
> Update:

Found them! So many of you were correct. The whole file had slipped
into another folder. Relief.

Dora

On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 14:24:11 -0700, sf wrote:

>Well, at least you have a "snowball's chance" of finding your
>favorites. I had two hard drives die in two years - they were my home
>computer. Scads of recipes just went poof with each lost HD. I'm not
>saving as much to hard drive these days.

I've gotten into the habit of hitting the "print" button every time I
see a recipe I like. I have a 3-hole punch, so I punch holes in the
paper, then file the recipes in a photo album purchased especially for
this purpose.

One of these days I'm gonna organize the recipes into categories - at
the moment they're filed in order of when I printed them out.

Jo Anne

"limey" > wrote
>> Update:
>
> Found them! So many of you were correct. The whole file had slipped into
> another folder. Relief.

That's great news, Dora! I'm so happy for you.

nancy

On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 17:02:02 -0500, Andy <q> wrote:

>I backup all my critical files onto one of my camera's 2 Gb memory cards.
>All my recipes, email folders, bookmarks, private encrypted files, etc.
>There's still plenty of room left to take photos. Nice to have them with me
>all the time I'm away from the 'puter.

I only have a few really important files on my hard drive. I email
them to myself about twice a month at either my yahoo account or my
google account.

They will always be accessible from any computer.

Jo Anne

On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 18:24:41 -0400, Goomba38 >
wrote:

>Mark Thorson wrote:
>> limey wrote:
>>> All gone. Vanished without a trace. Somehow, and I've
>>> no idea how, I must have wiped out the whole darned category.
>>
>> I got a lot more diligent about backups ever since
>> I bought a USB memory stick. That makes backups
>> so much easier and faster. I got it on sale,
>> only about $20 (after rebate) for a 1 GB Sony
>> Microvault. I'm amazed that so much memory is
>> available so cheaply, and it gets cheaper every
>> day. There's currently a glut of flash memory
>> chips on the market, which is likely to get worse
>> (better, for consumers) over the next year.
>
>I've had my bacon saved (obfood? lol) more times than I can recall
>because I utilize online backups now. Especially with banking and
>professional documents I can't afford to lose.
>It is a HUGE weight off my mind. The backups take place pretty much on
>their own so it doesn't require any effort on my part. <whew!>

Online backups?


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jay wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 00:28:25 GMT, limey wrote:
>
>> limey wrote:
>>> Update:
>>
>> Found them! So many of you were correct. The whole file had slipped
>> into another folder. Relief.
>>
>> Dora
>
> YOU are the techie...
>
> Good on you!
>
> jay

Techie? Moi? I am a bumbler who sometimes stumbles onto the answer and
then don't remember how I got there.
Dora

limey wrote:

>
> Techie? Moi? I am a bumbler who sometimes stumbles onto the answer and
> then don't remember how I got there.
> Dora

LOL. *That* makes you a techie
Glad you found them!

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Cheers
Chatty Cathy

In article <4eaUh.1442$uF1.1396@trndny04>, says...
> Horrors. I had a category in my Favorites entitled, "Food and
> Recipes". I must have had a gazillion links.
>
> All gone. Vanished without a trace. Somehow, and I've no idea how, I
> must have wiped out the whole darned category.
> Spit.
>
> Dora
>
>

Have you never heard of backups?

--
Peter Aitken

Peter A wrote:
> In article <4eaUh.1442$uF1.1396@trndny04>, says...
>> Horrors. I had a category in my Favorites entitled, "Food and
>> Recipes". I must have had a gazillion links.
>>
>> All gone. Vanished without a trace. Somehow, and I've no idea how, I
>> must have wiped out the whole darned category.
>> Spit.
>>
>> Dora
>>
>>
>
> Have you never heard of backups?
>
Gee, I see you are being your usual, (sym)pathetic, helpful self here,
Peter.

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Cheers
Chatty Cathy

In article >, cathy1234
@mailinator.com says...
> >> All gone. Vanished without a trace. Somehow, and I've no idea how, I
> >> must have wiped out the whole darned category.
> >> Spit.
> >>
> >> Dora
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Have you never heard of backups?
> >
> Gee, I see you are being your usual, (sym)pathetic, helpful self here,
> Peter.
>

Does insulting me make you feel good about yourself?

Suggesting backups is in fact helpful (I bet you don't do them).

People get computers and then don't have the energy or intelligence to
learn how to use them properly, then they complain when something goes
wrong. Shall we get out the violins?


--
Peter Aitken

Peter A wrote:

> Does insulting me make you feel good about yourself?

Was I insulting you? If I was, then yes it does
>
> Suggesting backups is in fact helpful (I bet you don't do them).
>
> People get computers and then don't have the energy or intelligence to
> learn how to use them properly, then they complain when something goes
> wrong. Shall we get out the violins?
>
>

I have a "backup" server Peter - with 4 x 320Gb drives in it - does that
make me a hero? I think not.

Now go and cook something... and you'll feel better too.

--
Cheers
Chatty Cathy

On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 13:26:49 -0400, Peter A >
wrote:
>
>People get computers and then don't have the energy or intelligence to
>learn how to use them properly, then they complain when something goes
>wrong. Shall we get out the violins?

Only for you, because you're going back into more than just my KF.

<waving>

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In article >, cathy1234
@mailinator.com says...
> > Does insulting me make you feel good about yourself?
>
> Was I insulting you? If I was, then yes it does
>

I didn't realize that you are such a sad and pitiful person. When
insulting others makes you feel good, it is a sure sign of emotional
insecurity and immaturity. Too bad, you have my sympathy.

--
Peter Aitken

In article >, sf says...
> Only for you, because you're going back into more than just my KF.
>

What a really intelligent response, KFing someone who points out
incovenient truths. Of course, stupid people never like reminders of
their stupidity.


--
Peter Aitken

Peter A > wrote in message
...
> [..] stupid people never like reminders of
> their stupidity.

And stupid people (like you) never understand irony when it slaps
them across the cheek...

ObFood: Fried pork chops with Italian bread crumbs.

The Ranger

Peter A wrote:

>
> I didn't realize that you are such a sad and pitiful person. When
> insulting others makes you feel good, it is a sure sign of emotional
> insecurity and immaturity.

Um, do you bother to read any of your posts before you hit the "Send"
button?

Too bad, you have my sympathy.
>

Thankyewverymuch.

Oh, sorry. That was incorrect grammar/spelling.

Thank you very much for the kind words, Sir.

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Chatty Cathy

Chatty Cathy > wrote in message
...
> Peter A[sshole]ikens brayed:

> > I didn't realize that you are such a sad and pitiful
> > person. When insulting others makes you feel
> > good, it is a sure sign of emotional insecurity
> > and immaturity.

Wow. The irony of the passage above... It's astounding.

> Um, do you bother to read any of your posts before
> you hit the "Send" button?

He reads the words but there's simply no comprehension whatsoever.

ObFood: Bulkogi tonight; heavy scallions and garlic.

The Ranger

The Ranger wrote:
> Peter A > wrote in message
> ...
>> [..] stupid people never like reminders of
>> their stupidity.
>
> And stupid people (like you) never understand irony when it slaps
> them across the cheek...
>
> ObFood: Fried pork chops with Italian bread crumbs.
>
> The Ranger

Of course, Peter A-- is correct - I should have backed up the files.
Unfortunately, what little assistance he gives people every once in a
while is usually couched in nastiness. He is seldom pleasant, but
that's a problem he apparently likes to live with. Gives him a sense of
superiority, I suppose. I'm just glad he's one of the few.

To everyone else, I appreciate the help and patience you showed me.
Q.E.D.

Dora

Dora

"Peter A" > wrote in message

> In article >, cathy1234
> @mailinator.com says...
> > > Does insulting me make you feel good about yourself?
> >
> > Was I insulting you? If I was, then yes it does
> >
>
> I didn't realize that you are such a sad and pitiful person. When
> insulting others makes you feel good, it is a sure sign of emotional
> insecurity and immaturity. Too bad, you have my sympathy.
>
> --
> Peter Aitken

Pot, Kettle?

On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 13:26:49 -0400, Peter A >
rummaged among random neurons and opined:

>Suggesting backups is in fact helpful (I bet you don't do them).
>
>People get computers and then don't have the energy or intelligence to
>learn how to use them properly, then they complain when something goes
>wrong. Shall we get out the violins?

After I had a complete and utter crash about 5 years ago, I had a new
computer built with a second hard drive that is set to automatically
copy the primary hard drive every 24 hours. Harry Demidavicius, an old
poster who seems to have deserted us, told me that his hard drive info
is automatically uploaded to an off-site server every 24 hours. Either
way, as my techie once told me (after my spectacular crash in '02),
it's not a matter of *if* you're hard drive is gonna do a nose dive,
it's a matter of *when*.

OB Food: Thank God, I had my recipe software backed up! Losing a
couple thousand recipes would make me cranky for a very long time.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

--
"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as
old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the
waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."

-- Duncan Hines

To reply, replace "spaminator" with "cox"

In article >,
says...
> And stupid people (like you) never understand irony when it slaps
> them across the cheek.
>

You haven't a clue what irony is. You calling me stupid is like Danny
DeVito calling me short.

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Peter Aitken

On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 00:28:25 GMT, "limey" > wrote:

>limey wrote:
>> Update:
>
>Found them! So many of you were correct. The whole file had slipped
>into another folder. Relief.
>
>Dora

too late for this time, but you might have searched for some keyword
in one of the files, which should give you a location.

your pal,
blake

Peter A > wrote in message
...
> In article >,
> says...
> > And stupid people (like you) never understand irony
> > when it slaps them across the cheek.
> >
> You haven't a clue what irony is. You calling me stupid
> is like Danny DeVito calling me short.

Let's put back in the prize text you typed for everyone to review:
> Peter A[sshole]itkens brayed:

> > I didn't realize that you are such a sad and pitiful
> > person. When insulting others makes you feel
> > good, it is a sure sign of emotional insecurity
> > and immaturity.

You continue to prove with every article you post that you have
learned less than what you hoped you conveyed. Keep digging...

The Ranger
==
"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a
horrible warning." -- Catherine Aird