That's why I tell people all the time to keep multiple back ups of important files and not just rely on the computer. I have seen it happen to many times where people loose irreplaceable gigs worth of documents and pictures and such.
AGAIN THE MOST IMPRTATN THING YOU CAN DO IS HAVE SEVERAL DIFFERENT BACK UPS!!! whether A COMBO OF CD-Rs OR FLASH DRIVES JUST DON'T SOLY RELY ON THE HARD DRIVE THEY DO AND WILL CRASH.
Sorry to hear that happened I bet you wanted to throw the machine to.
Hmhm, had a similar experience at my grandmas.
I just had to finish that chapter of the story. was in a hurry and suddenly my grandma tells me what time it is. Looks at my ears and starts talking about them
Just as I should press save, I turn my head and pressed don't save instead.
Few months ago before I joined Lush, my computer crashed just when I was going to do my backup. Aka -1gb- textfiles gone. In other words a year of my life gone.
Luckily Im an easygoing person and hey I dont need to sit down and sort all thoose files now ;)
yeah and get this, we just got this new computer back in june, and then something happened to it and we've havent had internet since then because my sis took it to place after place after place to get it looked at because it wasnt connecting online, and then just a couple weeks ago she took it to this guy who my stepmom knows and he fixed it, so just yesterday we hooked up online for the first time in almost a yr....and then this shit happens. so i think im gunna take your advice and invest in a flash drive....
thx bikebum
I feel your pain. The same thing happened to me recently with my lap top. It's been nothing but trouble lately. I had to sit there very calmly for a couple of minutes so I didn't end up hurting it.
If you saved it once, try a Find with Ctrl-F and search your whole C drive, using the title. Maybe it's hidden in a folder somewhere.
Do what the others have said and set that Word program (if you use it) to Autosave, and get a cheap thumb drive to back up to.
welll turns out it was saved in a draft here on lush......*shrugs* i think i fell out of my chair when i discovered it wasnt lost! lol
look for a new story from me within the next week! started a new job and they already have me working 40 hrs over the next 5 days
Sarah:
Get a Mac!
A built in "Time Machine" automatically backsup your work every hour--so, even if you accidentally delete the contents of a file and save it that way, you can still go back to the previous hour's version.
Anyway, it's all water over the dam, right? Your new stories are awesome!
yeah i agree with nicola. go to the ? symbol near search and run. then click on ALL files and folders and your computer just might find it you be surprised what was hiding in there. I had trouble with my pc and thats what i had to do to try and find all my lost stories in documents area. hope this helps. HB xxx
nerdy solution -- > version control. Like subversion. Windows had an excellent client, tortis svn-- keeps version of files, so you can figure out what changes you've made. Use a pen drive and your computer. You will never lose anything unless the city's destroyed.
I hope you managed to remember some of it and try again later! xxx