On 24 Feb 2006, at 01:42, Dennis Thompson II wrote: > Simon Forster wrote: > >> To state the bleeding obvious, don't decide that it'd be a good >> idea to tidy up your HDs late at night after consuming quantities >> of red wine - you may find that you accidentally erase the wrong HD. >> >> This handy safety tip bought to you by... >> >> Simon Forster (who has considerably more free disk space today >> than he did yesterday) > > Don't feel bad. I've done that without the liberal application of > alcohol. It was on a Windows PC though so no great loss. I just > installed Linux. > > Haven't had any such issue with my Macs. > > Hope you didn't lose to many important items in the process. All stuff held elsewhere - otherwise I wouldn't have been quite so sanguine about it all! I knew I could be in for trouble when I started but largely it's a development box so no worries really. ATB Simon Forster _______________________________________________________ LDML Ltd, 62 Pall Mall, London, SW1Y 5HZ, UK Tel: +44 (0)845 257 6086 Fax: +44 (0)70 9230 5247 _______________________________________________________