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    What's Wrong With My Delete VBForums Code?

    It won't make the forum go away.

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    You may want to hang on for .Net 4.9 with its new ScriptKiddie namespace.

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    Re: What's Wrong With My Delete VBForums Code?

    I don't see a thing. Maybe it's working better than you think.
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    You need to go to a command prompt and type "Format C:". That should fix it.
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    You can also try compressing your drive... Del *.* = 100% compression.

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    Re: What's Wrong With My Delete VBForums Code?

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    It won't make the forum go away.
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    Re: What's Wrong With My Delete VBForums Code?

    Have you tried Alt-F4 yet?

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    Quote Originally Posted by dilettante View Post
    Have you tried Alt-F4 yet?
    What does that d....
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    Quote Originally Posted by FunkyDexter View Post
    You need to go to a command prompt and type "Format C:". That should fix it.
    Excellent!!! I'm gonna try this right away

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    Unless you are a sergeant in the army showing a picture of your privates will delete you from the forum.
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    Had to goto Best Buy and buy another computer. Format C killed mine

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gruff View Post
    Unless you are a sergeant in the army showing a picture of your privates will delete you from the forum.
    Generally speaking, that comment has a major colonel of truth to it.
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    I guess that was a rank comment on my part.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jacob Roman View Post
    Had to goto Best Buy and buy another computer. Format C killed mine
    Maybe trying again you will have better luck. The hard drive was probably tired. Newer hard drives take formatting much better.
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    Had to goto Best Buy and buy another computer. Format C killed mine
    Sorry to hear that. Make sure to clean the new one thoroughly when you get it. A quick dip in a bath of strong detergent should suffice.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FunkyDexter View Post
    Sorry to hear that. Make sure to clean the new one thoroughly when you get it. A quick dip in a bath of strong detergent should suffice.
    Excellent idea! I'm gonna pour Oxy Clean right into the motherboard now

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    A while back one of my files became corrupted. I got the local priest to carry out an exorcism but it didn't appear to help. Eventually I burned the PC at the stake.
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    Re: What's Wrong With My Delete VBForums Code?

    I'm having both a hard time believing it, and at the same time, believing it completely.

    It's like the old teacher adage, Those who can, program; those who can't, administer.

    There are a lot of situations where people think they have backups and really they don't - the only way to be sure you have a backup is to do a restore to see what you really have. I think very few people do that.
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    Yeah, I used to work with a DBA who was fond of saying "Your backup strategy is worthless, what's your restore strategy?"
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    That's why they are called data recovery plans... Not data backup plans.

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    Yeah, I used to work with a DBA who was fond of saying "Your backup strategy is worthless, what's your restore strategy?"
    I once did a Disaster Recovery exercise for a previous employer, i got halfway through couldn't get hold some of the backup tapes i needed and was told to stop to concentrate on project work that was bringing us in money as it was taking to long.

    And out of all the places i have worked at they probably did more than most. One place i worked they were doing backups which were then being put in the support guys draw at his desk this was a multi-million pound company!
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    Re: What's Wrong With My Delete VBForums Code?

    Well this is a coincidence.

    Last night someone high up in our company who has permissions for everything on the network deleted some folders that drove a hidden share.

    This happens to be the folder I use to store company wide configuration files for my custom company apps.

    Every custom program I wrote for the company crashed this morning when the users fired them up.

    I got the files restored from my backups, but the permissions were boogered. Long story short. We are back in business as of 9:30am.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gruff View Post
    Well this is a coincidence.

    Last night someone high up in our company who has permissions for everything on the network deleted some folders that drove a hidden share.

    This happens to be the folder I use to store company wide configuration files for my custom company apps.

    Every custom program I wrote for the company crashed this morning when the users fired them up.

    I got the files restored from my backups, but the permissions were boogered. Long story short. We are back in business as of 9:30am.
    Haha! Just kidding...
    https://youtu.be/g_rWja1Xiu8?t=08s

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    He's not alone. The company that hosts the website for Ross County FC managed to wipe it out.
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