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Nov. 24th, 2002 04:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
foxmonkeyIt'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.
:-(
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.
:-(
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Date: 2002-11-24 08:48 pm (UTC)I did the 'search' thing - if there's another, more thorough capability available, I'd love to hear about it! I was pretty frantic, even though I know that panicking isn't the best way to get things done. ;-)
Luckily, I remembered the major stuff. There's a lot of smaller, finesse tweaks that I may have missed, but I went over it with a couple of fine-toothed combs and recreated what I could, and re-edited the rest.
I don't ever want to go through that again. :-(