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Skriven 2010-07-02 07:35:00 av TOM WALKER (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av ED VANCE
Ärende: Yes!, It Happened To Me!
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EV>I am Left Handed but I have the Mouse set to the Standard settings for a
EV>Right Handed user.

EV>I use my Thumb (on my Left Hand) to press the Right Mouse Button,
EV>and I press the Left Mouse Button with a couple of my smaller fingers on
EV>my Left hand to Click or Double Click something.

EV>I was going about my usual routine to Save a .QWK message packet.

EV>I saw that the directory (folder) shown in the window called
EV>"Enter name of file to save to..." was set to a directory that I had
EV>used recently to save a file to.

EV>I Left clicked on the right side of the unwanted directory name to get a
EV>drop down box so I could select the directory I use to store .QWK
EV>messages in, which is: C:\COMM\SLMR .

EV>First I Left clicked on the Root directory, C:\ .

EV>From the list of directories in the Root, I Left clicked my COMM
EV>sub-directory.

EV>In the COMM sub-directory I was shown the three directories that I have
EV>made in it:

EV> MM40        Multi-Mail 0.40 .QWK Message Reader
EV> SLMR        Silly Little Mail Reader
EV> Z           A temporary directory for .ZIP files

EV>I put the Mouse Pointer on the SLMR directory, and as I Left clicked I
EV>wiggled the Mouse a bit.

EV>All of a sudden, the SLMR directory disappeared, and all I was shown in
EV>the window were:

EV>MM40
EV>Z

EV>One twitch and around 200 Files and sub-directories taking 50 Megabytes
EV>in my SLMR directory, including the SLMR.EXE file had Vanished.

EV>I tried opening up "My Computer" to see if I would find a Edit - Undo
EV>option, but NO LUCK it was greyed out.

EV>Since it was late in the night I turned off the XP computer and went to
EV>bed.

EV>When I turned on the computer the next day I tried to find a
EV>File Recovery program, the one I found was called Recuva by Piriform.

EV>I never have used Recuva before, I only grabbed it because it was
EV>mentioned in a Newsletter I get from Kim Komando at
EV>http://www.komando.com as a Free download.

EV>I have used Nortons Utilities 8.0 on my 486 DOS/Windows 3.1 PC a lot to
EV>find deleted files, and UNERASE time.

EV>It took me a while to learn how to use Recuva in Windows XP.

EV>Finally, after a couple of different tries, I decided to set Recuva to
EV>search for deleted files JUST from the C:\COMM directory.

EV>Lo and Behold, I saw that my SLMR directory  AND  the SAVEDTXT
EV>sub-directory below it, that I use to store information I gleen from
EV>messages that I have read, had been moved into the Z directory as a
EV>sub-directory of it.

EV>I closed Recuva and opened My Computer and fumbled around with it a few
EV>to get my SLMR directory and the contents below it back in its proper
EV>place in the C:\COMM directory, so I could start up SLMR by clicking a
EV>Desktop Icon.

EV>I checked, and all of my saved message files were O. K.

EV>Boy!, Was I a HAPPY CAMPER!!!!!!!!!!!

EV>I have heard a long time ago that while using a Windows GUI,
EV>with ONE CLICK a person could LOSE a lot of files.

EV>I almost did it with ONE TWITCH!    ;-)

Boy did you luck out. I have never even been tempted to set my mouse to
Single Click.
As a side note I am Left handed btu learned to use a mouse using my
right hand and it is just natural to me. My wife is also left handes btu
insists on having the mouse on the left side of her computer but with
right hand mouse setup.
Never watched her to see how she handles right clicks though.
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