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Janet

In article >, says...
>
> "Sqwertz" > wrote in message
> ...
> >> On 2018-05-05 06:41:39 +0000, Wayne Boatwright said:
> >>
> >>> David's son who lives in North Carolina flew out to visit last
> >>> weekend. Unfortunately he has a long-term drug and alcohol
> >>> addiction and has created many problems for his father amd me. I
> >>> didn't discover until after he had left that he reformatteed my hard
> >>> drive, including my backup software and all my backups. He did the
> >>> same to David's computer. We'rer supposing that he managed to do
> >>> this in the middle of the night, as we try to keep an eye on him. If
> >>> it weren't for David's sake I would have had him arrested and put in
> >>> jail.
> >>>
> >>> Luckily I have the source media for all of my software as well as
> >>> important data backed up on DVDs and under lock and key. However, it
> >>> has taken most of the week to put everything back in order and there
> >>> is still a lot missing.
> >>>
> >>> As soon as I get a chance I will get back to reading amd responding
> >>> to posts.
> >
> > How odd. I wonder what the real story is. And how you put somebody
> > in jail for allegedly reformatting your computers.
> >
> > <big shrug>
>
> Indeed. No proof that he did it and... What purpose would it serve?

Addicts have two motives; obtaining drugs, or obtaining money to spend
on drugs. So he might have been:

Covering his tracks because he'd been checking their financial
affairs/making some illegal use of the computers/ interfering with
online accounts and banking.

Janet UK

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