You win some, you lose some...

Last night I finally decided to clean install the Vista Ultimate which I'd bought about 2 weeks ago on my laptop, deleting the existing partitions and repartitioning it better. I backed up the things that I wanted to keep, reformatted and installed, and everything was going smoothly. Great, right?

Except for the fact that I somehow managed to not backup my Trillian settings (logs, downloads, updated contact list with groups), as well as other things like my favourites (some of which are hard to find, but...). Most of this can be replaced or recreated, but I still feel rather sad that I lost 6 years' worth of logs and downloads. I'm sorry, but if you sent me something on AIM, ICQ or Y! before, it's almost certain I won't have it now, and some of the things that were there are from people who are no longer online...

I was really frustrated this morning, around 2 am when I found out that I hadn't copied the logs, but after sleeping it off for a while, I now think losing the logs is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, I can no longer refer to them, and there was a lot of useful information in there that helped me, such as talking with various anonymous people. On the other hand, it's an opportunity for a clean start... I think.

And no, I didn't lose my MSN logs. :P

I'll probably spend a large part of this weekend installing and configuring stuff.