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Quote: Originally posted by FranH
I found I was missing the entire game!
The Sims 2 (modern game) folder was gone! OMG! I was panicked, truly panicked and desperately looking for it. I searched for it all over my computer-even the trash bin (dreaded thought). Thalia, TT, Duma Key-all gone by-by!
With mounting panic, I wondered how the hell could the entire folder disappear? What was I going to do? I have back ups, but where to start?
I almost had a mind meld over it until I looked in one place that was still there: my "medieval" game folder.
There it was. Sitting in the middle of that folder.
I was relieved but also embarrassed. How did that happen?
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Yes it's that so-called "feature" of moving files by "drag and drop"! I have hated this feature ever since Microsoft introduced it in Windows 95 -- long before I started playing The Sims. I especially hated it when I was doing "support" and working on other people's computers, because I had no idea how other people might arrange their files. It was all to easy to pick up a file or a folder and drop it somewhere without knowing I'd even done it, far less where it had "landed". I never intentionally use drag and drop to move or copy files. I always use cut and paste or copy and paste. I know I can undo the last action if I know I've moved something by mistake, but often I don't know, and "Undo" is another place where I'm working blind, as Windows doesn't tell me what it's undoing. I'd love to disable this alleged "feature", but in 29 years of looking, I've never found a way to do so. Does anyone know a way to disable it?
Maybe really belongs in the Grrr! Pet Peeves thread!!
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