Sony Accidentally Erases List of Anniversary PS4 Winners
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[QUOTE=.Lain;47244286]discounting hardware damage perhaps?
[editline]2nd March 2015[/editline]
or the sector being overwritten
[editline]2nd March 2015[/editline]
it's true that files aren't deleted when you delete them in a windows user-interface, they're flagged as over-writable space however. there's a very large chance that, especially in an active computer, that it was just written over.[/QUOTE]
If it's hardware damage, fair enough. It's still not acceptable to not keep an off-site backup though.
Guess it all comes down to luck though in the end.
I really like to imagine that on some employee's desktop PC there is a "ps4 an winners.txt" file on his desktop and while he was bored and randomly dicking around on his PC he just deletes a few files including that and has it so that everything he deletes does not go straight to the bin but gets perma-deleted.
Couldn't Sony have acted like nothing ever happened and just handpick 123 new winners? i mean versus some bad PR
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Probably stored them in the Recycle Bin.
[QUOTE=Demache;47245079]Probably stored them in the Recycle Bin.[/QUOTE]
If I had a dollar for every time...
[QUOTE=Demache;47245079]Probably stored them in the Recycle Bin.[/QUOTE]
I had to re-download something yesterday that was going to take several hours to download. About an hour in I decided to empty the recycle bin since there was something in it, half way through the deletion noticed that the thing in there was the extracted version of what I was re-downloading. Died a little inside.
[quote=Zero-Point]One of my idiot co-workers... dropped out of home-school.
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How is that a thing Ô.o
Can't Sony re-run whatever number picker they had to get the same keys as they had?
I guess they actually deleted all information connected to the raffle.
Sounds more like a sneaky way to get more people to run for the raffle.
~conspiracies~
Why can't I edit my posts properly anymore *shakefist*
What are backups?
[QUOTE=darth-veger;47244795]I really like to imagine that on some employee's desktop PC there is a "ps4 an winners.txt" file on his desktop and while he was bored and randomly dicking around on his PC he just deletes a few files including that and has it so that everything he deletes does not go straight to the bin but gets perma-deleted.[/QUOTE]
Could've also decided to play [url=http://www.stfj.net/art/2009/loselose/]lose/lose[/url], and got lucky
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