A Momentary Lapse Of Reason (Reason Fail)

[Guest]

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[drewdle]

I've been using computers since I was six years old. I've used just about everything from PCs with 386s and DOS 5 all the way of through the latest versions of Windows, and four years ago, I switched to Mac. So you'd think, with all my experience, I would have thought twice about this.

Tonight, while I was working on my iBook, I was cleaning up the drive and trying to squeeze a little more speed out of it when I came across this folder labeled "etc". Not having noticed it before on my other Macs as something important, I promptly dumped it in the Trash, whereupon the computer prompted me for my password. Here's when I should have thought twice, but no, I fired in the password, and thought nothing more of it. About twenty minutes later, I go to use Spotlight and it won't respond. I get a search box, but no actual searching. I decide to go and find Terminal so I can check on something, and lo, it won't even start, claiming my Admin values have been set to 0 or something obscure like that. No problem, says I, I'll just restart the computer, as it's obviously having a meltdown.

Only to be greeted by a black screen, with a command prompt and the words "/etc not found". It turns out "etc" is a very important folder after all. *sigh* It's a good thing I keep bootable backup copies of my system drives lying around, but seriously, what possessed me to delete that folder and pay no immediate heed to the password request?

Anyone else have a moment(s) like this one they want to share?

[Tamaska]

I've had a similar experience, I once had a an anti-virus program that had more power then I knew... It had caught a virus and asked me what to do with it, without thinking I chose to delete the file. Now, normally deleting a system registry file isn't aloud in windows but for whatever reason this anti virus did it, I later shut down the computer and of course when I tried to start it.. it couldn't be done.. this was on a laptop so I had to go and get a reader for the HD and replace the file

Oh well, lesson learned

[Unition]

UPDATE ProductionServer.dbo.PatientData
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