The gay (I:\) drive.

Some of you attending QMC may have wondered why you couldn’t save to your I:\ drive at certain periods of time within the last lesson today. Well…two of those times were my fault. I logged on today to find that there was only ~600mb of storage left for all the students, so naturally – using a copy of Breaking Benjamin’s Phobia 15 times over – I filled it up, just to see if it could be done. I later removed said music.

A screenshot of my shenanigans as viewed on Joe’s PC can be found here

Problem was, later on in the lesson, the number of students throughout the college saving their work etc filled the I:\ drive up totally without my intervention. This resulted in a mass deletion of work from all students in the classroom.

There is a serious point to this post however, started when my teacher wondered half-way through the lesson “Why have all my pictures gone?”. We then went to the Art directoy and watched as folders such as “Art 2005″ and “Kates work” were deleted. Shame really, as “Kate” had some good photos in there. I’m guessing the IT “support” staff started bricking themselves and started holding down the delete button.

This is a warning to all art students, music students and students with big-ass files. Backup. I don’t think they’re going to do it for recent files, but just be warned.