I discovered recently that, if you save important files to a flash drive, those files can be deleted with a simple touch.
The valuable information that had been residing on my hard drive, but was safely backed up on the flash drive, is now gone. I'm told this is a function of static electicity, and that it happens all the time. In my case it happened right after my hard drive on my laptop died, with all of my current work saved to the "thumb drive". I'm a lucky guy. So, I'm recreating a lot of information. In the meantime, "Brian the Geek" is troubleshooting the dead harddrive from my laptop. I still hope to get photos off of that.
I used to think I was technically savey. No so much anymore.
