If you have a job that revolves around using a computer, you’ll know one of the worst things that can happen is to lose everything you’ve been working on. Whether your computer decides to crash or you have a system failure when saving, losing your work is almost as difficult as creating it in the first place. When this happens, you want to panic and end up hitting a few buttons that can end up making the situation worse. Before you feel all is lost, there are a few steps you can take to recover your data. Try these first before you start recreating the project you were working on.
First Of All, Don’t Panic
Although you may want to panic that all of the work you have done is now lost, the best thing to do in this situation is to remain calm. It can be incredibly stressful and in your state of panic, you may do something that means you lose the work forever. If you remain calm, you’ll be able to clearly think of solutions that may be able to recover what you’ve lost. If you find yourself getting too stressed out, back away from the computer and try speaking to someone that can calm you down.
Check If You Can Undo The Action You Did
While this may seem like the obvious step to take, people often forget that you can undo an action. Although it doesn’t work in absolutely every situation, in some cases you may find you’re able to recover what you have lost. In most situations, this works if you are using a specific program, rather than if you are in your file system. I have accidentally deleted the content I was typing in an email a few times. Thanks to the undo feature, I was able to recover it right away and send the email with no problems. For more information about recovering work by using the undo action, you can visit this site here.
Check If Your Work Has Saved Anywhere Unexpected
If undoing your mistake doesn’t work, you may want to check whether or not your work has saved somewhere unexpectedly. Whether it is an auto-recovery of a document after a system failure or a backup of a file you didn’t know you were keeping, searching your computer for another copy of your work is one of the best things you can do before the panic starts to set in. If you don’t already have an autorecover function set up, you can find out how to activate it here.
Ask A Professional To Help
If you are really struggling and don’t think you have any chances of finding your lost files, speaking to a professional may be the next best step. While they cannot guarantee they’re going to find the work you’ve lost, they will be able to advise of ways to protect yourself from losing information in the future. When my system did an upgrade one night, I was unable to locate many of my documents. With the help of the tech support I use, they were able to find documents and also learned the documents had saved in a different format. For more information about how a professional can help in this situation, you can visit this site here: https://www.cimasg.com/solutions/backup-disaster-recovery/.
Remember To Back Everything You Do Up In The Future
Finally, remember you need to start backing up everything you’re doing up. It won’t help recover the file you’ve already lost, but it will help prevent it from happening again. You can set up your computer to do this automatically but you also want to save any documents you are working on while you are working on them. Again, this may sound like it’s an obvious thing to do, but so many people forget to do it.
I had to learn the hard way by losing the files for a project I was working on. I hope that doesn’t happen to you and following these tips can definitely help. Have you ever lost all of your work and been unable to retrieve it? What did you do to ensure it didn’t happen ever again? Let me know in the comments section below.
Carolyn R. Owens has over 25 years of proven experience and serves as a Career Strategist, Leadership and Life Coach. She is the Chairwoman and CEO of Infinity Coaching, Inc. where they help you up-level your skills so you can up-level your income. Infinity Coaching, Inc. provides one-on-one and group coaching, organizational training, and personality assessments. Carolyn is certified to give both The Energy Leadership Index Assessment and Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Assessment. You can find out more about both assessments and other products and services at https://infinitycoaching.net.
