Re: lost data set?

Posted by David Marso on Dec 03, 2012; 1:05pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/lost-data-set-tp5716590p5716596.html

"Since I have put a lot of work in this set, I wouldn't like to take it all over from the beginning."
Wow... did it ever occur to you to make a backup copy?  Email it to yourself? Put it in the cloud on dropbox or something?  Burn it to a 50 cent CD.   The data mysteriously going poof?  Computers are NOT infallible devices.  Disks fail. CYA next time and make multiple backups!
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Ildra T wrote

Hello,


Yesterday I have been working on a dataset, with a couple of tens of variables and about 500 cases. After I have done some basic statistics (descriptives, explore procedures..) and saved the standardized values for some variables, I closed the dataset. Today, when I searched in the folder were I was keeping it, the set was no longer there. I've tried looking for it in windows with the search option but it just gives me the shortcut which will not open (it says that it has been changed or moved and is no longer available). This file was kept on a usb stick but I carefully saw that all programes are closed before ejecting the usb. Since I have put a lot of work in this set, I wouldn't like to take it all over from the beginning. Is there any way to recover my data?


Thank you!

D.N.