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OK, I'm a stupid technophobe ...  [message #46765] Fri, 09 November 2007 04:13 Go to previous message
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.. and though I've used computers since the days of green text, I have always operated a 'need to know' policy - basically, if I could think of any reason why I didn't need to know, I didn't WANT to know.

Now I usually compose my posts in Word, and paste the result into the reply panel, but I've been lazy over the sast few days, and have typed directly into the reply screen. (Incidentally, I've noticed that, deprived the auto spell-check, I've managed to make at least one typo in virtually every post - which deprives me of any right to criticise anyone else. It's just that I've got stubby fingers, or at least that's my excuse!)

Anyway, back to the point. I was working on a response in the 'Hugging' thread, in connection with which I'd done a load of google-type research and had almost completed a longish post - total time investment at least a couple of hours. I had lots of tabs open and, due to a technical problem known in the trade as rank stupidity, I inadvertently deleted the reply window.

There it was - gone! - and a couple of hours of time-investment with it.

Now can any practically-minded person tell an impracical idiot whether ther is any way in which the lost work can be retrieved and, if so, in words of no more than two syllables, how he can do that?

Please reply quickly, I'm developing mildly suicidal tendencies already!!

Btw, I'm running MS Vista, so you'll probably regard me as certifiably insane in any event.

Stupid (but hopeful) Cossie.


For a' that an' a' that,
It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man tae man, the worrld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that.
 
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