Real Missing Data

We have a client, a doctoral student, who is close to finishing her dissertation. Over the weekend her house was burglarized and all of the family's computers, external hard drives and USB drives, along with other valuables, were taken. She has lost all of her dissertation data, her original proposal and all her chapter drafts.

She has offered a reward, no questions asked, checked with pawn shops and is looking on eBay. But it is too soon for things to show up. So, there is no happy ending to this story yet. The only bright spot is that she had visited our consulting office last week and there were copies of most of her data on one of our temp drives.


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