I was sent on a mission. My daughter’s computer died and I was to get the system restore disks to her. Following the directions to find them in her things was like being on a Lewis and Clark expedition, but I found the box in her closet.
No disks in the box. As I read the manual, I noted she was supposed to burn them first thing. (Note: way computer companies save money is not including the CD and just adding the files for you to burn, IF you do so.)
Well, she was “disappointed” but I saw in the manual how to reset it but lose some information and sent her a pdf of the directions. It worked.
This followed the even more “disappointed” call I get the week before when she lost 6 hours of work at her new job. I have no aversion to pressing the “save” button every 15 minutes or so, and have tried, unsuccessfully, to pass that along.
Maybe now my words will have more meaning?
Yeah, I know. The eternal optimist.
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“This manual says what our product actually does, no matter what the salesman may have told you it does.” — In a Californian graphic board manual, 1985.
4 responses so far ↓
1 angelawd // Nov 10, 2009 at 7:24 pm
I was going to chime in with sadness that our children never listen to us, but then I remembered I’m terrible at backing up files myself. Unless it’s for a work assignment!
2 Beth (A Mom's Life) // Nov 11, 2009 at 10:31 am
I have a back up drive that is supposed to back up all of my files every night while I’m sleeping. I hope it’s actually doing that. You would think I would take a minute to check it every now and then but I don’t. I’m sure I’ll regret that decision at some point!
3 Meam Wye // Nov 12, 2009 at 8:31 am
I guess we all tend to become careless regarding backups to some extent. Right now, the backup of my data on Flash drive is going on in the background
I prefer taking manual backups.
4 Todd // Nov 16, 2009 at 10:19 am
Backing up files sometimes take too long. When we are done, we tend to have zillion files that follow. So, why back up right away? Well, obviously, we tend to be irresponsible thinking we don’t need it right away. Seriously we need to back up for unwanted circumstances to happen.
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