I’ve spent a week organizing some old files. I carefully inspected every file and verified they still work. I found some old backup CDs with copies of the same files and I compared their hashes to verify that nothing had gotten corrupted over the years. I found a few broken files, which I restored from the backups.
Finally, I finished the job. I went to remove the (now empty) temporary directories I used to keep the unsorted files in.
I accidentally deleted the directory where I placed the organized files. Deep, deep sigh.
Technically, I didn’t lose anything, because this was a copy I was working with. But I lost the organization work I had done. Now I have to copy the original files over… and start from scratch.
I want to scream in anger, but it won’t help.
A week’s worth of work down in the drain. I’ve been working with computers for 31 years and now, suddenly, I made an amateurish mistake like this. I mean, what the hell is wrong with me?!
I also don’t know what’s worse: the fact that I deleted all those files, or the fact that I won’t have time to re-do this operation until 3-4 weeks from now. This completely screws up my schedule for the next two months, because I needed those organized files in the next step of my master plan.
I think I’m just going to go play games now and forget this whole thing. Perhaps in 3-4 weeks I’ve cooled down enough to try it again?
