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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

[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!