My laptop has been playing up so I took it to a local computer repair place for an overhaul.
He uninstalled windows and then reinstalled it, having first backed up my hard drive to another computer.
He phoned me this morning to say that it was all done and I could come and pick it up. I did and having briefly checked it over, it all looked good and it was running a lot quicker than it had been.
When I get home this afternoon,I have a more indepth look.
Four of my documents are missing, one is a ten thousand word manuscript, one is a thirty thousand word manuscript, one is a fifty thousand word manuscript and one is a collection of poems.
I had all of these backed up to a USB drive except for the fifity thousand word one.
My OH who is in IT has a look but he can't find them either.
I phone the guy up annd he tells me to come over so he can take a look.
I do the half hour drive and lo and behold when I get there, he cannot find them either (because they are not there!).
He won't let me search through the saved copy of the hard drive because the computer it is one is five hours through a seven hour data transfer. As he puts it 'a whole days work for him'.
I point out that with the loss of these documents we are looking at over five years worth of my blood sweat and tears.
Not budging but I can come back in the morning and look then.
I pointed out that tomorrow I will have my three year old with me.
So am I being unreasonable thinking he should have cancelled the data transfer and will I be unreasonable to allow my three year old to run amok around all his delicate computer equipment, when I go back in the morning?