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Get help from someone with more expertise, and even a fresh pair of eyes on the problem can help: I had lost some PPT slides that I need for a lecture in a few weeks time (part of a crash and back-up problem I experienced around this time last year). I thought the slides might still be on Moodle (the e-learning system we use at UCL so students can download PPT slides, etc). However, they had already been cleared/deleted. I found Moodle had an archive and had taken a snapshot. I looked there but it was blank too :(. Having the slides would save me days of work. I asked a friend who had been working on Moodle and he went to the archive and claimed to have found the slides. I looked again but they weren’t there. A little bit of wrangling later I discovered they were there but not where I expected and not where I was looking. Phew! If I hadn’t have asked I could have been working with the assumption that they could not be retrieved #rsdiary #social #expertise #freshpairofeyes