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

[roo1965.livejournal.com]

Oh, i sympathise when tech goes wrong, just makes you want to go AARRGGHHHHH and throw things. I found a doc saved to the mysterious temp file- the one it sometimes defaults to when you ask to save- the one with the gobbledygook letters. took me forever to get it back out again and saved properly. Like you it was the latest version of a fic. I was not a happy camper! After my latest scares with the pooter i finally my docs folder backed up to external HD and am figuring out how to save emails and Firefox profiles too- they don't make that easy either!