I accidentally renamed 20,000 files on my hard drive

[pokerfan]

to FILE00001, FILE00002, FILE00003, etc. Boy, do I feel like an idiot. Beware of power tools such as Total Commander:



Fortunately, there's an undo fucntion.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

1. Play with fire, get burned.

That's what keeps me in business. :evilgrin:

[pokerfan]

2. You should see what I can do with Regedit

Not pretty.

[CatholicEdHead]

3. Hopefully you had good backups

[pokerfan]

4. Backup, what's that?

No, I do copy sensitive files to a thumb drive, but I don't trust so-called seamless backups as I got burned once. If/when my drive crashes, I am faced with a complete program and OS reinstall. But at least I know my data is safe.

Funny thing when I was typing my first post. My spelling is so bad I use google as a spell checker (faster than bringing up a dictionary). So I googled 'accidentally' and got:

Microsoft accidentally distributes virus - CNET News.com - 5:40pm

Oops! Google accidentally deletes its blog | Tech news blog - CNET ...

Did NASA Accidentally “Nuke” Jupiter

Madison County Record | Alton attorney accidentally sues himself

CNN.com - Cheney accidentally shoots fellow hunter - Feb 13, 2006

F-16 Pilot Drops Bomb on Tulsa, Accidentally

US Airways pilot's gun accidentally goes off on plane | Reuters

FOXNews.com - Human Tongue Accidentally Served Up in Hospital ...

U.S. Says It Accidentally Killed 9 Iraqi Civilians - New York Times

Slashdot | FBI Accidentally Received Unauthorized E-Mail Access

Digg - Baby Accidentally Flushed at Birth

Health Blog : HMO Accidentally Exposes Private Info of 75000 Members

U.S. accidentally delivered nuclear missile components to Taiwan ...

Palestinian rocket accidentally kills local farmer in Gaza ...

Man Accidentally Kills Wife During Botched Satellite TV Install ...