1. Spend a few hours running some random experiment in the lab
2. Save the data collected (which is basically a huge set of numbers in a crazy native data-acquisition program) into, yes, excel!
3. Drop that excel file into your Dropbox folder
4. Go to office, scratch your brain and happily record / write geeky macros / vb scripts (in same file in the Dropbox folder synced on laptop) to automate some time consuming data crunching / graphing etc (can brag to friends at this point :P)
5. After the next set of experiments (at some un-earthly hour on a weekend) instead of copying the new data file to Dropbox, drag-drop the old one AND the damn thing just happily overwrites the file without prompting for permission!
CURSE CURSE CURSE!
All the painful macro writing, all the further manual work (actually requiring brains!) gone out the window :( :(
Deep breath...
"Someone has got to have done this stupidity before me"...
"People would hate Dropbox if it didn't forgive such mistakes, specially after doing such a thing without warning (regardless of any default setting etc!)"...
Google, google, google... AHA! :D
"Previous versions" - YES!
Thank you Dropbox; you are the best-est ever and I reaffirm my allegiance to you!
