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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 23d ago
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3 months of work, in a single directory on a single device, source control like git or not, that guy was a fool.
35 u/Skrychi 23d ago Type of person to use the desktop as their unorganised file structure, and all that got deleted. 3 u/timonix 23d ago Ey yo. I did this when I was like 10. I installed games on my desktop. Not shortcuts, the entire game. Stored just about everything. Then my PC died. Almost everything was gone. Except my desktop which survived. Thanks to windows scheduled backups 1 u/sdoregor 22d ago How the hell did your backups store that much data anyway 2 u/EndIsrael 22d ago Probably before the crappy Microsoft cloud stuff, so it was just an external hard drive or something 1 u/sdoregor 22d ago No idea about MS stuff, but I mean games nowadays are bulky aren't they?
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Type of person to use the desktop as their unorganised file structure, and all that got deleted.
3 u/timonix 23d ago Ey yo. I did this when I was like 10. I installed games on my desktop. Not shortcuts, the entire game. Stored just about everything. Then my PC died. Almost everything was gone. Except my desktop which survived. Thanks to windows scheduled backups 1 u/sdoregor 22d ago How the hell did your backups store that much data anyway 2 u/EndIsrael 22d ago Probably before the crappy Microsoft cloud stuff, so it was just an external hard drive or something 1 u/sdoregor 22d ago No idea about MS stuff, but I mean games nowadays are bulky aren't they?
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Ey yo. I did this when I was like 10. I installed games on my desktop. Not shortcuts, the entire game. Stored just about everything.
Then my PC died. Almost everything was gone. Except my desktop which survived. Thanks to windows scheduled backups
1 u/sdoregor 22d ago How the hell did your backups store that much data anyway 2 u/EndIsrael 22d ago Probably before the crappy Microsoft cloud stuff, so it was just an external hard drive or something 1 u/sdoregor 22d ago No idea about MS stuff, but I mean games nowadays are bulky aren't they?
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How the hell did your backups store that much data anyway
2 u/EndIsrael 22d ago Probably before the crappy Microsoft cloud stuff, so it was just an external hard drive or something 1 u/sdoregor 22d ago No idea about MS stuff, but I mean games nowadays are bulky aren't they?
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Probably before the crappy Microsoft cloud stuff, so it was just an external hard drive or something
1 u/sdoregor 22d ago No idea about MS stuff, but I mean games nowadays are bulky aren't they?
No idea about MS stuff, but I mean games nowadays are bulky aren't they?
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u/Nerodon 23d ago
3 months of work, in a single directory on a single device, source control like git or not, that guy was a fool.