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Posted November 23, 2018
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Telika: I don't always accidentally delete my hard drives.

But when I do, it's physically.
As the saying goes:

In soviet Russia you don't delete hard drives.

Hard drives delete you.
Posted November 23, 2018
I keep my backups on an external HDD, and secondary backups on DVD.
Fortunately my catalog is mainly games not receiving constant updates, so the DVD throw-out is small.

HDDs/SSDs are tempermental creatures. Long live physical media!
Posted November 23, 2018
I can relate.
I was trying to format a USB drive from exFAT to NTSF.
I accidently typed C: instead of D: -- formatted my main hard drive.

Luckily I back up to DVD and portable HD.
But the time lost to restoring my programs and files was lost
to a stupid mistake.
Post edited November 23, 2018 by Sam2014
Posted November 23, 2018
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tinyE: There is no way I could accidentally erase my HD because to do that I'd need to get into the casing, and in order to get to the screws holding the casing on I'd need to move that giant electromagnet I have sitting there.
Please. Don't keep magnets near your hard disk. It makes it harder to erase.
Posted November 23, 2018
I guess you were too quick on the draw with the second Enter. Good thing you had a backup
Posted November 23, 2018
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DubConqueror: Just now I wanted to open my folder with GOG installers on my harddrive, but accidentally hit the Delete button instead of the Enter button to open the selected folder. Immediately afterwards I clicked Enter after all, but right at that moment my computer had put up the question "the contents of this folder is too big for the recycle bin, do you want to permanently delete it?"

Thus my Enter was registered by Windows as "Yes I want to permanently delete the folder GOG - Good Old Games'. Poof, 194GB of game downloads gone and it wasn't to be found in the recycle bin either. Luckily I have a backup HDD and right now I'm putting back all of those 194GB's.

That, my dear GOGlodytes, is why you always should have a backup of your game installers. You never know what might happen.
I have an external HDD over USB that i use gogrepo with. I then, rather than going downstairs and grabbingt the HDD and bringing it up here, and installing, and returning the HDD, i just use ssh to move each game to a "network drive" and install from there.
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Themken: I deleted a manuscript once, not that long ago... :-(
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DubConqueror: Ouch, that's much more painful than losing a reply that I typed in but didn't get posted due to one of the many forum bugs of GOG (it got wrong when opening another thread before posting the reply I was typing).
Oh that just burns my beans. It's even worse when it's 'cause the reply was too long, meaning you just spent an hour typing it.
Post edited November 23, 2018 by kohlrak
Posted November 23, 2018
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Braggadar: I keep my backups on an external HDD, and secondary backups on DVD.
Fortunately my catalog is mainly games not receiving constant updates, so the DVD throw-out is small.

HDDs/SSDs are tempermental creatures. Long live physical media!
http://ollydbg.de/Paperbak/
Posted November 23, 2018
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Braggadar: I keep my backups on an external HDD, and secondary backups on DVD.
Fortunately my catalog is mainly games not receiving constant updates, so the DVD throw-out is small.

HDDs/SSDs are tempermental creatures. Long live physical media!
Writable CD/DVD/BD are not very reliable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_rot
Posted November 23, 2018
Check these babies out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC
I use them since I learned about them.
Posted November 23, 2018
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DubConqueror: Just now I wanted to open my folder with GOG installers on my harddrive, but accidentally hit the Delete button instead of the Enter button to open the selected folder. Immediately afterwards I clicked Enter after all, but right at that moment my computer had put up the question "the contents of this folder is too big for the recycle bin, do you want to permanently delete it?"

Thus my Enter was registered by Windows as "Yes I want to permanently delete the folder GOG - Good Old Games'. Poof, 194GB of game downloads gone and it wasn't to be found in the recycle bin either. Luckily I have a backup HDD and right now I'm putting back all of those 194GB's.

That, my dear GOGlodytes, is why you always should have a backup of your game installers. You never know what might happen.
As long as you haven't over written the files, try Recuva from www.piriform.com (or get it from filehippo)

It's free (same team behind defraggler and CCleaner) and good at recovering deleted files. When you search it will list files that can be recovered and chances of full recovery (green light next to file name).

I have used it many a time with great success

One important thing to remember, always recover files to a different drive or you'll be overwriting some of the files you're trying to recover!!
Post edited November 23, 2018 by mighty.ape.acct
Posted November 23, 2018
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kohlrak: Oh that just burns my beans. It's even worse when it's 'cause the reply was too long, meaning you just spent an hour typing it.
I once used an extension to Firefox that saved anything you were typing into the browser, for just such a case. So you could use this extension to put back what you typed after something went wrong posting. But I've forgotten it's name, nor do I know if it's still usable with the new Firefox. Firefox made a major change some time ago, that stopped a lot of old extensions from working (I'm not so tech-savvy to remember what it was that changed).
Posted November 23, 2018
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DubConqueror: ... Thus my Enter was registered by Windows as "Yes I want to permanently delete the folder ...
As long as you realize this right away not all is lost. Use a file recovery tool.

e.g. https://www.minitool.com/data-recovery/recover-permanently-deleted-files.html
Posted November 23, 2018
As to Recuva and minitool, I have more faith my backup HDD will have the files complete, than they'll get out of file recovery complete.
Posted November 23, 2018
I have never used a recovery tool. Should you have it already installed in your PC "just in case" before you actually need to use it, and not after? In other words, does installing the recovery tool potentially overwrites the files you want to recover?
Posted November 23, 2018
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Caesar.: ...does installing the recovery tool potentially overwrites the files you want to recover?
Yes, but you must install it to another hard drive, USB stick or CD/DVD/BD if not already present on the system. Also remember to write the recovered files to another HD, USB stick or CD/DVD/BD. Best to not even use the olperating system if the lost files are on the same partition as the OS. I suggest a live OS + recovery program on a disc/stick..

EDIT: I have always (the 2 times I have used it) used a recovery cd.
Post edited November 23, 2018 by Themken
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