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[foxmonkey]

It's gone. I've been working on this friggin' Castle challenge story ALL FRIGGIN' WEEKEND, and it's gone.

I've been saving like a good girl, like you're supposed to, because what happens if the power goes off or the computer fails? Gotta save!

I was done. DONE. Hit save one last time to get the last edit, and friggin' Wordpad had a heart attack. Blahblahblah, shutting down. THE BASTARD. I thought, ok, I'll lose my latest edits, no big deal because I've been saving practically every other word, right. Wrong. Opened up the document after the friggin' thing shut down, and it's got a bunch of gobbledeegook at the top of the page. It's gone.

Gone.

Gone. I can't believe it. If I hadn't loaded up a test page last night I wouldn't have *anything.* But as it is, I'd done a day's worth of edits since the test page went up.

I'm nearly in tears, but I'm trying to reproduce what I can remember. And this sucks, because deep in my heart I know it won't be the same as the stuff I lost.

I think I'm going back to pen and paper after this. I can't take this happening again.

:-(

Comments

[runerinrun.livejournal.com]

Do a search on your hard drive for the file name. There may be temporary files saved somewhere else, although I'm not sure if Wordpad does that the same as Word does but it's worth a try!

[foxmonkey.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if it worked - I tried it, and I *think* I got a restored file, but the "restored" one was blank, too. I may have accidentally saved the blank one in my panic and overwritten was was restored, so. :-(

If I could recreate what happened, I'd test it to see if a *real* restored document could be found. Might save some heartache if that happens again.

Thanks for the suggestion; it'll be the *first* thing I do if it does happen again!