Things that give you the sh1ts

[The Dark Knight]

The updated My Cricket App (Samsung version). It's a complete mess. It has struggled to load properly all week and it muddles up the scores, FOW, batting and bowlers orders even though I entered the order correctly on the club computer last night. Can't log into it with our club I.D to enter the team's on Thursday night like we have done in the past to make it easier rather than using the computer to do it.

[heater31]

The updated My Cricket App (Samsung version). It's a complete mess. It has struggled to load properly all week and it muddles up the scores, FOW, batting and bowlers orders even though I entered the order correctly on the club computer last night. Can't log into it with our club I.D to enter the team's on Thursday night like we have done in the past to make it easier rather than using the computer to do it.

Mate it doesn't even give a pleb user the chance to look up scores on the go........

[The Dark Knight]

The updated My Cricket App (Samsung version). It's a complete mess. It has struggled to load properly all week and it muddles up the scores, FOW, batting and bowlers orders even though I entered the order correctly on the club computer last night. Can't log into it with our club I.D to enter the team's on Thursday night like we have done in the past to make it easier rather than using the computer to do it.

Mate it doesn't even give a pleb user the chance to look up scores on the go........

It's horseshit, why the need for such a drastic update is beyond me.

[The Bedge]

Had a sick day yesterday, work took the liberty of upgrading my computer to windows 10 while I was gone and have now lost all my files that were saved to my desktop.. Now i'm screwed

[morell]

Don't save documents where you shouldn't. Probably dot point #2 in your IT policy.

[tipper]

Don't save documents where you shouldn't. Probably dot point #2 in your IT policy.

wait, since when is saving documents to the desktop a bad idea? its where all of mine are, and after a quick look, i cant find a single mention anywhere in our intranet of that being a bad idea

[MW]

Don't save documents where you shouldn't. Probably dot point #2 in your IT policy.

wait, since when is saving documents to the desktop a bad idea? its where all of mine are, and after a quick look, i cant find a single mention anywhere in our intranet of that being a bad idea

Is your desktop backed up? If not, bad idea.
We save to network drives which are backed up overnight daily.

[bennymacca]

Don't save documents where you shouldn't. Probably dot point #2 in your IT policy.

wait, since when is saving documents to the desktop a bad idea? its where all of mine are, and after a quick look, i cant find a single mention anywhere in our intranet of that being a bad idea

Sarcasm?

Surely a network drive where it’s likely backed up is a good place?

[morell]

Sounds like a few more IT inductions need to take place

[tipper]

Don't save documents where you shouldn't. Probably dot point #2 in your IT policy.

wait, since when is saving documents to the desktop a bad idea? its where all of mine are, and after a quick look, i cant find a single mention anywhere in our intranet of that being a bad idea

Sarcasm?

Surely a network drive where it’s likely backed up is a good place?

not sarcasm. m not saying that isnt a good place, and anything super important is saved elsewhere, but drafts, or testing data etc is just on the desktop.

Sounds like a few more IT inductions need to take place

lol, i work in IT, and have never been told that before.

[Wedgie]

Pleased to say I've never saved any documents to desktop. IT 101

[morell]

lol, i work in IT, and have never been told that before.

If you're saving your stuff to your desktop, that is obviously written to the hard drive of your local PC. Hard drives which are susceptible to all manner of things going wrong, especially if they're the disc driven type. Solid state ones less of a concern. But still fire, flood, theft etc will mean bye byes to all that data. As will an OS update, like what old mate experienced. Although I'd be a little surprised if Bedgies IT department didnt tick the box to back up those files.

A network drive is obviously on a server, either on prem or offsite, with ideally reasonably redundancy with tape and other back ups.

tl;dr save your data to a network drive, IT will assume things on your desktop are things you don't care about

[The Bedge]

I save work in progress to my desktop, and most files go into various network drives with completed work uploaded into SharePoint.

Have a number of progress files and templates though that I've got on my desktop that I need, or files that I've scanned that haven't had a chance to properly store.

Probably should've been bit more cautious, but then again wasn't really expecting them to suddenly come and swap my laptops over either

Upside - I rung IT about it, they swapped the laptops instead of upgrading my original, and my old laptop was still downstairs waiting to be wiped - so I got it back and grabbed the files I needed haha!

[morell]

I save work in progress to my desktop, and most files go into various network drives with completed work uploaded into SharePoint.

Have a number of progress files and templates though that I've got on my desktop that I need, or files that I've scanned that haven't had a chance to properly store.

Probably should've been bit more cautious, but then again wasn't really expecting them to suddenly come and swap my laptops over either

Upside - I rung IT about it, they swapped the laptops instead of upgrading my original, and my old laptop was still downstairs waiting to be wiped - so I got it back and grabbed the files I needed haha!

Save your data to a network drive! It's exactly the same.

I recall even naming a folder on one dudes share drive "Desktop" just he thought he was saving it there.

**** me you'd be cooked in Local Gov. We have to save our stuff in a specific software package with very stringent rules. Drives me batty.

[The Bedge]

We have to save our stuff in a specific software package with very stringent rules. Drives me batty.

I could handle that, just that I've got myself into bad habits in my current role

[morell]

Its. ******. Wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Not even marbles.

[bennymacca]

I save work in progress to my desktop, and most files go into various network drives with completed work uploaded into SharePoint.

Have a number of progress files and templates though that I've got on my desktop that I need, or files that I've scanned that haven't had a chance to properly store.

Probably should've been bit more cautious, but then again wasn't really expecting them to suddenly come and swap my laptops over either

Upside - I rung IT about it, they swapped the laptops instead of upgrading my original, and my old laptop was still downstairs waiting to be wiped - so I got it back and grabbed the files I needed haha!

Save your data to a network drive! It's exactly the same.

I recall even naming a folder on one dudes share drive "Desktop" just he thought he was saving it there.

**** me you'd be cooked in Local Gov. We have to save our stuff in a specific software package with very stringent rules. Drives me batty.

Is the software Objective?

[tipper]

tl;dr save your data to a network drive, IT will assume things on your desktop are things you don't care about

IT would be right, i dont care if i lose it, but the chances of it happening would be so close to zero i might as well worry about an asteroid taking it out.

[Magellan]

I save work in progress to my desktop, and most files go into various network drives with completed work uploaded into SharePoint.

Have a number of progress files and templates though that I've got on my desktop that I need, or files that I've scanned that haven't had a chance to properly store.

Probably should've been bit more cautious, but then again wasn't really expecting them to suddenly come and swap my laptops over either

Upside - I rung IT about it, they swapped the laptops instead of upgrading my original, and my old laptop was still downstairs waiting to be wiped - so I got it back and grabbed the files I needed haha!

Save your data to a network drive! It's exactly the same.

I recall even naming a folder on one dudes share drive "Desktop" just he thought he was saving it there.

**** me you'd be cooked in Local Gov. We have to save our stuff in a specific software package with very stringent rules. Drives me batty.

Is the software Objective?

Or is it DataWorks, or TRIM?

[morell]

TRIM but I've used Objective too.

We're in the process of reviewing though.