When you are working in Microsoft Word, Excel, or Powerpoint you might notice that every few minutes a little symbol appears at the very bottom of the screen stating, ever so briefly, that Word is “Saving autorecovery file my_whole_darn_dissertation.doc.” That message might fill you with confidence. His tale of woe prompted me to look into the advice I might give here at DiYiT beyond the old computer lab assistant standby of “save early and save often.”įirst I want to explain the important distinction between autosave and autorecover.
A colleague told me just the other day that he’d lost six hours of work in Powerpoint. Short of having to tell local vagrants that if they weren’t students they could not sleep in the 24-hour computer lab, consoling those who’d lost work due to viruses, file corruptions, computer shutdowns, or save errors was definitely the most difficult part of that job.Īnd somehow, despite all our technological advances over the last decade-and-a-half, we are still losing work. Unfortunately for all of us, one unpleasant duty of the lab assistant remains a part of all our lives today, dealing with lost work.
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Primarily my work there consisted of scanning lab users’ 3.5-inch floppy disks for viruses, assisting with file conversions between Mac and PC file types, showing users how to map their computer to the campus servers to retrieve their fancy new electronic mail, and a whole host of other, now entirely obsolete, tasks.
Way back in the 90s when I was an undergraduate, I worked as a lab assistant in a campus computer lab.
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