We’ve lost our Laptop (M1 Air Gold) in an ICE to Vienna last Friday. Have submitted lots item reports to DB and OBB but nothing so far.
But we still get occasional FindMy locations. Always on train station, always on the move for most of the day, always different trains.
We’ve tried chasing it around, but between infrequent updates and low accuracy it’s not much we can do there. Driver didn’t know about it.
Since it’s always on trains, and always on different ones around Austria, we assume it’s with some railway employee, that hasn’t handed it over to Lost&Found? It’s the only thing that sorts makes sense, but we’re just confused tbh.
Where is it at night? If it doesn't ping at night, is the area where it's in the evening somewhat consistent?
Whom do you mean by the driver? Driver of the train you lost it on, or a driver of one of the trains it was on?
I see that others already mentioned the possibility of it being the same train, but serving different services. How do you know what service it was on board of? (I don't know how often trains that pass through a station but don't have a stop there actually stop for a short while somewhere nearby anyway, or drive through very slowly in Austria.)
@robryk for a day or so it was at Vienna Westbahnhof. Tracking showed it in a residential building right next to the Bahnhof, but not sure if that was actually the location or just where the devices pinging it from were.
Looked around there but with hundreds of units, in the circle all we could do is ask people walking by if they found it, and again given it was right next to a Bahnhof maybe the location was just slight off.
Today we found which line it was on, but it stopped at HBF instead of continuing on that line, and when we caught the train at its final station the train driver of that one didn’t know anything. An hour or so after it went off in a different direction from HBF.
We will see where it stays tonight, but even if we go to its location all we can do is ask people about it. It’s quite infuriating to know it’s probably within 50m of you but you can’t actually find it.
And especially with infrequent pings it’s hard to know which train it’s on before it’s off in the distance.
If it's in a different location for this night, it's a significant piece of evidence: it's carried by someone who spent each of these nights in a different place, which is atypical.
Similarly, it would be interesting to note that it's moving at night: this means it's with someone (or something) that travels at night, which is also atypical.
Did you explicitly ask that driver about potential shift changes at HBF? (I would not assume that drivers and conductors have same shifts.)
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