This morning when I logged on to my computer I found that my Pictures folder was inexplicably empty. Just in case something weird had happened, I tried rebooting. Nada. 7GB of photos vanished into thin air. This is why we have backups, people.
Update: Almost immediately when I tried to copy my photos back from a backup, I discovered the problem. I had accidentally set the permissions of the folder too strictly so that even I was forbidden from looking inside. Easily fixed and all the photos have returned now. My bad.
Mokalus of Borg
PS - The operating system is Ubuntu Linux.
PPS - I have five separate copies of my photo collection, not including what's online.
2 comments:
This strikes me as being really funny. You see, I get visuals of being a parent. "No, you cant go outside to play. You are grounded." This simple statement take your own permission to go outside as well and you become a victim of your own rules!
so funny....
It is kind of funny. At least I was able to change the permissions back, since I was the one who changed them in the first place.
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