You win some, you lose some...

[nyankoframe]

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.

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[nakaemi.livejournal.com]

Rats! Not the MSN ones? :p I feel for you, but I've undergone the same. I lost contact with many people because of hubby reformatting and not even telling me beforehand. I lost pics, files, everything... A friend of mine underwent the same, but worse perhaps. Her boyfriend came from Connecticut to visit and he loves messing with computers and even though she had told him not to touch her old computer, he did. He was "brilliant" enough to install something that was too advanced and the computer crashed. She had a complete research project there that was for the final days of class among many things, including things from her classes as she is a teacher (this was last semester, like in November). When he said what happened she started to cry. He tried to save the things, but it wasn't possible and he had to reformat. My friend cried and cried telling him she couldn't forgive him. He didn't know what to do, but apologise... In the end things were all right between them and she hopes he will never touch her computer again. :(