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So you confirm what I already stated that by omitting context (my question you didn’t quote) that such a subset might be interpreted as condescending or not, depending on tone. And as Merlin has stated, written communication has no tone. Other people read forgot as I’ve written in the last sentence quoted. In my limited language understanding as non-native speaker, this isn’t an accusation when used in a question as opposed to an assessment. And if any doubts of my intentions and tone would be open, the following question you ommited isn’t an assessment neither. Don’t know which punctuation you read nor which interpretation you have.

So do you mean you’re condescending?

I couldn’t find a question mark. Your statement obviously is your assessment. It seems to be a very speculative assessment. I don’t participate in such speculations. The OP is free. He may choose which details to disclose to find assistance. What’s the relation to stupid?

I learned that stupid questions don’t exist. It might be stupid to not ask questions. And Spiceworks community has a field guide and several topics on posing good questions, good questions, bad questions, but couldn’t find on stupid questions. Can you show me where I missed such a topic? And did you forget the community guidelines ? As far as I understood, your assessment of stupidity is contrasting these guidelines. The community doesn’t have such a dependancy or relation. It is your assessment, not a fact. And as such, it is an opinion and hence no violation of these guidelines neither.

Can’t follow neither. The OP even didn’t mention backup not at all in his original post. He only disclosed this detail upon request. And again, your assessment is very biased. The Spiceworks community field guide on asking good questions references another article on asking better questions which warns in its second step on taking such bias and assumptions for granted and proposes a better manner to handle. I asked about his backup because I could imagine it existing and either he may not know where his colleague has placed it or the backup may have been corrupted. It isn’t uncommon that faultyness of backups taken is only detected several weeks or months later. So as Scott has recommended, it is better to ask for confirmation of own assumption instead of taking these for granted, even on the price of becoming considered condescending and brute by you. I can’t follow your assessment, can’t find its logic nor reasoning, and prefer Scotts recommendations instead. These seem logic, consistent, helpful and too little known.