Today, we had one unfortunate student who ended up losing her entire document she was working on while working on one of our computers. The important lesson learned from this: Save your work, and save often.
She had been working on this paper for over a couple hours. She never saved her document because she didn't bring in her flash drive. Then the computer blinked out unexpectedly, and Word disappeared from her taskbar--the document had closed on her, or Word had unexpectedly closed. Unfortunately, because this student never saved, there was nothing we could do to help her. We even went to get assistance from our IT help desk, and from the computer lab desk, to see if any one knew how to retrieve the missing file that had mysteriously disappeared. Nobody could help. We looked everywhere, but the file no longer existed, because the document was never saved, not even by the Auto Recover.
One strong word of advice we give to all of our students--save early, save often. You can not foresee if something happens to the program or to the computer to hinder the recovery or retrieval of your document, and we can not be of any assistance if the document is not saved. We really do not want to see you have to start from scratch on a paper that you have worked hard on for the last two hours, and we would like to help you succeed as much as possible. So please, take my advice: Save early, save often!
She had been working on this paper for over a couple hours. She never saved her document because she didn't bring in her flash drive. Then the computer blinked out unexpectedly, and Word disappeared from her taskbar--the document had closed on her, or Word had unexpectedly closed. Unfortunately, because this student never saved, there was nothing we could do to help her. We even went to get assistance from our IT help desk, and from the computer lab desk, to see if any one knew how to retrieve the missing file that had mysteriously disappeared. Nobody could help. We looked everywhere, but the file no longer existed, because the document was never saved, not even by the Auto Recover.
One strong word of advice we give to all of our students--save early, save often. You can not foresee if something happens to the program or to the computer to hinder the recovery or retrieval of your document, and we can not be of any assistance if the document is not saved. We really do not want to see you have to start from scratch on a paper that you have worked hard on for the last two hours, and we would like to help you succeed as much as possible. So please, take my advice: Save early, save often!
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