cluedo - who cld it be?
i’ve been placed in charge of e qtr’s valuation of e co’s liabilities n have been workin lots of OT cos of this. today at abt 3pm, i was checkin some figures on paper n was not lookin at e workin files on e server. abt half an hr later, i went back to e excel files n discovered tt more than 80% of e files had gone missing!
i got really worried. boss asked me to do a search for any one of e files but no results were returned.
i was convinced tt someone had deleted e entire folder which i created. the reason why some 20% of e files were left behind was cos i had one of e files opened, so the ‘deletion’ met an error n e process was disrupted. it cldn’t hv been me cos i wld’ve gotten tt error msg in deletin tt opened file. so no… not me.
boss brought me to IT to request for a restoration of last nite’s file. which meant all e work i’ve done today wld go down e drain.. few min later back at our desk, boss said “eh, no need to restore alrdy. e whole folder’s been moved to another directory”.
so i went to check n indeed there they were.. i wondered why they din show up in my search results previously. felt quite paiseh then cos it seemed as tho i’d accidentally clicked n dragged e folder into another directory myself.
anyway so i cut n pasted them back into e correct folder, n FKKK!
everythin was gone! includin e 20% tt did not go missing in e first place.
by then i was really panicky n wondered how e hell this cld’ve happened. another helpful boss frm e pricing team came over to my boss’s pc to see if he cld help.. after some clicking, copying, failed pasting, he finally did a “right click - properties”, n saw tt e entire folder was actually hidden! my boss had set his pc to show all hidden files, which explains why he saw e folder but i cldn’t see them on my pc. which also explains why e hidden files din show up on my search results, but showed up on his.
someone had moved my entire folder n
intentionally hidden them.someone within my dept, since only we have access to this server.
someone within my team perhaps, since only we know wat these folders/files r for n e imptance of them.
who cld it be?
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