08-30-2016 , 11:26 PM
This is a story that many have told before me. Until recently I have manually copied my collection of programs and licenses from my laptop to my external hard drive. This process is cumbersome and wanting to automate it I decided to use the backup program 'bvckup'. It is a very good and easy to use program but I did not configure my backup settings properly and when I did the backup for the first time I got a horrible surprise. Instead of adding files from the laptop to the external drive , the program added files from my computer, over writing everything that was there. They were deleted, overwritten and gone! One and a half years of collecting programs and licenses was gone in an instant. There is no 'Undo' button on the software and despite the generous help of some members of this forum I could not recover the data.
Thank you for the contest!