[Regia-NA] Wierd ...

[Joy Cain]

I think it was the demon Titivillus. This was the demon that stole the 
monks words as they were writing and put them in a pack on his back - 
each word missed being a sin on the poor monk laboriously copying text 
after text.

I am convinced that he lives in our computers today.

Perhaps you quit the program you were using to archive and you never let 
it finish the task? I use a Mac so I can't diagnose.

Joy

On Thursday, January 22, 2004, at 08:53 AM, J K Siddorn wrote:

> You know how you file something away most carefully and the damned 
> computer eats it and despite all your searching it
> never appears again?
>
> Well, the opposite just happened to me and I am stumped as to how it 
> has happened.
>
> Some six months ago, I transferred all the photos I took whilst testing 
> mail samples with spears under laboratory
> conditions into a new folder. Without checking the new folder, I 
> deleted the temporary one from whence they came.
>
> Naturally, the new folder resolutely told me it was empty. Swine!
>
> As it was empty, I frequently dropped images in there when cutting and 
> pasting or attaching resized versions of pictures
> to e-mails as it was only two layers down the trail from the drive 
> directory. It was in frequent use and never had
> anything in it I wasn't expecting.
>
> This morning, I clicked on it in order to clear out some images I'd 
> been working on and LO!, the thumbnails started to
> generate for all the lost images. I opened each one and closed it 
> again, made a new folder and transferred them there -
> and yes, there they are!
>
> An odd thing in an otherwise odd day, some of the pics were designated 
> as tif's, a format I never use.
>
> Any ideas, anyone?
>
> Regards,
>
> Kim Siddorn,
> Regia Anglorum