Jack Feldmann
05-02-2007, 06:07 PM
I do my inspections with a Pocket PC, transfer the SD card to the laptop, input the photos and move on. I always set up my laptop on the kitchen counter.
After I had been in the basement a while, I come up to the kitchen and see the sellers kids in the kitchen, They move quickly to other rooms.
When I get to my laptop, all I see is a blue screen. I usually have a photo of my dogs as a backgound. I check out the laptop, put the dogs back in their place and continue on.
Toward the end, the seller is making noise about gfetting dinner ready, etc, so I decide to wrap it up and finish the report at home. I shut down and pack up.
When I get home and fire up the laptop I get an error message that says BIG SCREW UP!. I restart, and it goes OK for a while, then errors out again. Did this three times and it seems to be OK.
I then realize that the report I used on the PDA was an old inspection that was cancelled. I left it on the PDA to use as a spare. When I go to transfer it, I found I had deleted the old report. So, I create a new one with the same name and go to transfer the report from the card.
It transfers, but when I try to open it, there IS NO DATA. It's now gone from the SD card, and nowhere to be found on the laptop. So I have to reconstruct the entire inspection from memory. I did have a bunch of photos, and my little pocket note pad with m/n's and s/n's of stuff, but the rest was just what was retained in the old noggin.
I think I got it all except I couldn't remember all of the doors that didn't latch properly. I called my client and told him what happened (he was there when we found the laptop) and told him to look over the report and let me know if there was anyting we had discussed during the inspection that wasn't on the report.
I think I got my laptop back to normal, and I guess my SD card is toast (tech support for Inspectvue thinks so anyway). I hope tomorrow is a better day.
JF
After I had been in the basement a while, I come up to the kitchen and see the sellers kids in the kitchen, They move quickly to other rooms.
When I get to my laptop, all I see is a blue screen. I usually have a photo of my dogs as a backgound. I check out the laptop, put the dogs back in their place and continue on.
Toward the end, the seller is making noise about gfetting dinner ready, etc, so I decide to wrap it up and finish the report at home. I shut down and pack up.
When I get home and fire up the laptop I get an error message that says BIG SCREW UP!. I restart, and it goes OK for a while, then errors out again. Did this three times and it seems to be OK.
I then realize that the report I used on the PDA was an old inspection that was cancelled. I left it on the PDA to use as a spare. When I go to transfer it, I found I had deleted the old report. So, I create a new one with the same name and go to transfer the report from the card.
It transfers, but when I try to open it, there IS NO DATA. It's now gone from the SD card, and nowhere to be found on the laptop. So I have to reconstruct the entire inspection from memory. I did have a bunch of photos, and my little pocket note pad with m/n's and s/n's of stuff, but the rest was just what was retained in the old noggin.
I think I got it all except I couldn't remember all of the doors that didn't latch properly. I called my client and told him what happened (he was there when we found the laptop) and told him to look over the report and let me know if there was anyting we had discussed during the inspection that wasn't on the report.
I think I got my laptop back to normal, and I guess my SD card is toast (tech support for Inspectvue thinks so anyway). I hope tomorrow is a better day.
JF