One Step Forward One Step Back

[kristen999]

This is an odd tech failure. According to my saved files, I did not write anything last night. My conclusion chapter had a 'last modified date of April, 16th' and not April, 17th. I save my work every new paragraph and usually save it again to my flash drive. Of course the world stuck its tongue out at me an Eric had it over at a friend's house.

I ran a recovery program for any lost files and nothing was shown as being deleted yesterday. I ran search and only found the file from Monday.

So, despite saving the damn thing at least a dozen times as I wrote, all my progress from yesterday is lost. But I'd be damned on how Office ate it.

Ronon and John are not amused.

Comments

[crashbarrier.livejournal.com]

I have had this before myself. It sometimes comes about when the computer for what ever reason it has (don't ask me the mysteries of Microsoft are a mythic adventure story in themselves) it decides to instead of actually saving to document saves to a new document or a temp file which it promptly hides soemwhere cunning and unhelpful never to be seen again. (i think the godess Annoia has a hand in it somewhere)

In that situation i would try opening the file you last worked on using words "recent documents" menu.. and/or the same through the start menu's version of teh same. this will hopefully pull up the last iteration of the file if it has decided to hide itself somewhere. My other trick is to open the last iteration of the document through the "recent Documents" options then "save as" which opens the fil eit has arbitrarily decided to save the document in.. which can be a random temp file hidden away somewhere.. otherwise I would just search through any and all of the temp files..

I am sorry that has happened.. Loosing hours of work is heartbreaking..

[kristen999.livejournal.com]

I used all the recent document tricks and the only thing that popped up was the older version. Very odd and annoying. I'm manic about back-ups, so I'm lucky it was three scenes and a few edits vs. large chunks.