Thought I'd share the (partial) contents of two emails I sent tonight to the same person. Why? Because I'm too tired to write a new entry, and these notes speak to Sarah's assertions that I'm a geek godess.
E-mail #1, sent at 1:16 am, in response to an e-mail I picked up at 11:30am.
Subject: Re: missing piece
Parts/attachments: none
GRRR!
This never happens to me! It's impossible! I just spent an hour and a half
editing this for you, working hard, I might say, coming up with some
brilliant edits, and saving as I went. When I tried to attach the file to
this email, it somehow lost all memory of the file ever existing. It's
truly bizarre. All I can figure is that naming something edit.doc is a
really bad idea.
I mean, it can't just be gone. I know how computers work. It does have
evidence that I created it, but it thinks it 'moved' and find file doesn't
have a clue.
Anyway, below are my comments that went along with the attachment.
that no longer exists. I'll try to reconstruct my edits and send them
along. It's going to be a longer night than I thought.
E-mail #2, sent at 2:23 am.
Subject: Re: missing piece
Parts/attachments:
1 Shown 22 lines Text
2 24 KB Application, ""
3 24 KB Application, ""
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Well, at least I know I'm not going crazy. (and it wasn't too difficult to
reconstruct my edits. i have a surprisingly one-track mind, I guess.)
This time, I wisely saved my work in two different places, and
sure enough I was able to duplicate the error.
Apparently, using the command-line ftp in windows98, if you mix up get and
put (as one is wont to do at 1am) it will overwrite the file you tried to
get when you meant to put, with a file that has nothing in it, which is
the same as deleting it.
This could either be a bug or a virus. You never can tell with windows.
Anyway, I have included two attachments. They are the same file. One of
them was uploaded in binary mode. The other in ASCII, because at this hour
I can't remember which way works with .doc files.
So anyway, let me know if you get it or if it doesn't work.
And good night, if you're still up.
WD
So now you know the truth. I only know how to fix stuff (not just on computers, in other things too) because I'm so frequently breaking them. If I didn't know how to recover from serious tactical errors, my life would be a real mess. (As opposed to a wacky bunch of cludges.)
E-mail #1, sent at 1:16 am, in response to an e-mail I picked up at 11:30am.
Subject: Re: missing piece
Parts/attachments: none
GRRR!
This never happens to me! It's impossible! I just spent an hour and a half
editing this for you, working hard, I might say, coming up with some
brilliant edits, and saving as I went. When I tried to attach the file to
this email, it somehow lost all memory of the file ever existing. It's
truly bizarre. All I can figure is that naming something edit.doc is a
really bad idea.
I mean, it can't just be gone. I know how computers work. It does have
evidence that I created it, but it thinks it 'moved' and find file doesn't
have a clue.
Anyway, below are my comments that went along with the attachment.
that no longer exists. I'll try to reconstruct my edits and send them
along. It's going to be a longer night than I thought.
E-mail #2, sent at 2:23 am.
Subject: Re: missing piece
Parts/attachments:
1 Shown 22 lines Text
2 24 KB Application, ""
3 24 KB Application, ""
----------------------------------------
Well, at least I know I'm not going crazy. (and it wasn't too difficult to
reconstruct my edits. i have a surprisingly one-track mind, I guess.)
This time, I wisely saved my work in two different places, and
sure enough I was able to duplicate the error.
Apparently, using the command-line ftp in windows98, if you mix up get and
put (as one is wont to do at 1am) it will overwrite the file you tried to
get when you meant to put, with a file that has nothing in it, which is
the same as deleting it.
This could either be a bug or a virus. You never can tell with windows.
Anyway, I have included two attachments. They are the same file. One of
them was uploaded in binary mode. The other in ASCII, because at this hour
I can't remember which way works with .doc files.
So anyway, let me know if you get it or if it doesn't work.
And good night, if you're still up.
WD
So now you know the truth. I only know how to fix stuff (not just on computers, in other things too) because I'm so frequently breaking them. If I didn't know how to recover from serious tactical errors, my life would be a real mess. (As opposed to a wacky bunch of cludges.)
