" A Bad Day. The Curse Of The E-book "

I tried to apply things from our NI class, and that is to try to make an e-book work on my phone. As I have failed to find the manual of my phone, I tried to download e-books that might work with my phone. I downloaded e=book makers that would convert my doc.x files to different e-book file formats. A pdf e-book file format doesn't work... and then there came the .pdb file format. I thought it might work because my phone was able to recognize it as an e-book but then it didn't open. I thought that maybe I should do a little bit more of converting, it might just not have been a working file. But my efforts failed as it seemed that my phone can only recognize it and not open it. So I tried other file formats, .bin, .lx etc..... none of them worked...... then there came the .txt format. I tried it and it worked!(S***, If I only knew, I would've just copy pasted my data on a notepad and saved it as a .txt file). Then I saw a similar documents folder on my downloads folder and on my user folder. I examined its contents and they were identical. So I deleted the other one, freeing my hard disk a lot of space. And after a few hours, I looked for the documents folder.... and it damn freaking GONE! I panicked.... how in freaking hell can the documents folder be gone?! All of my documents and my tita's documents were gone ( my tita is a teacher, I'm talking about the grades she made, lesson plans...)! Then I asked my cousin, a Com-Sci student, if there is anyway to restore a permanently deleted file (may be I’m not hearing myself that time, how ludicrous can it be to recover a permanently deleted file). My cousin helped me and asked his classmates. And then someone gave a great idea… use system restore to return my computer to a previous state (like deep-freeze). We thought it did the job… our efforts have failed. The system wasn’t affected. Then I tried to download a file undeleter program. This program recovers files which were deleted even from the recycle bin. The trick to it is that you must not use the net and download files or save files. The principle behind this is that delete files from the recycle bin are not totally deleted but they were just removed from the list which means that it is still on your hard disk. However, these “deleted” files can be overwritten if new files are saved (through document making, temporary internet files). Unfortunately, since it happened hours ago, only few files were recovered. And that is the curse of the e-book! So beware… but now at least you know what to do. Use system restore and recover from a restore point or download a file undeleter program and avoid saving files or using the internet. This should have been entitled The Misfortunate Event To Gain Knowledge For Undeleting A File…. Nah… its too long! I’m fine with the title.