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May 31, 2016 at 2:45 am #13555
There are many things we as writers fear but out of all of them two stand out the most: rejection and losing oneβs masterpiece. And today I was visited by one of these. In between writing I was doing some chores while listening to music. I saved my work before closing the lid on my computer thinking it would carry on playing while shut. For whatever reason this made my computer crash and turn off completely and, in essence, delete the entirety of the story I was working on and no just what I had written today.
*Weeps*
I suppose I can complain too much since I didnβt lose a grand amount but still itβs disappointing. Be warned.
HC
May 31, 2016 at 7:41 am #13557*Closes eyes. Winces.* Oh, man. Iβm so sorry. This happened to me a while ago. I can only suppose there is a good reason for it β somewhere where we maybe canβt see it.
Ever since this happened to me, Iβve been sinking my files to a dropbox account. Dropbox is essentially a cloud storage system. That way, even if every file on your computer gets destroyed, you can still retrieve your content safe and sound. You can also have data retrieved from your computer, but this will cost a little. It might be worth it though depending on how much was lost.
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May 31, 2016 at 8:02 am #13558Oh no, @Hannah-C! Thatβs awful. Iβm so sorry. *weeps in sympathy* Thankfully nothing this dire has ever happened to me. It almost did onceβ I accidentally hit ctrl-A (highlight) instead of ctrl-S (save) then continued typing before the command had fully gone throughβ¦ and you know when you highlight something and keep typing, whatever you keep typing replaces the highlighted stuff.
It had highlighted my entire three hundred page document. *cringe*Thankfully I was able to edit/undo, but let me tell you I was totally freaked out for the rest of the day after that. π
Thatβs when I got myself a thumb drive and starting transferring my work to it and my momβs computer, so if something happened to my copy Iβd still have at least most of my work.
A little late for such advice, I know. π Iβm so, so sorry. I feel so bad. *sniffles, dabs eyes with tissue* Are you going to be okay?Uum, @kate-flournoy, get a dropbox account.
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May 31, 2016 at 8:07 am #13560@Daeus thatβs sounding more and more like a very wise idea. π
@Hannah-C Iβm so sorry. I think losing a story is even worse than getting rejected. That happened to me once; well, Iβd backed-up fairly regularly so I only lost a few chapters but stillβ¦it was several days worth of work. And I discovered several other things Iβd lost in the computer crash weeks or months later when I went looking for them. ;( I did get dropbox after that crash, thanks to @Daeus. π So now everything is βsafeβ enoughβ¦as long as a file doesnβt get corrupted. That happened to a friend of mine an she lost about a third of her book, so I still do manual back-ups onto a flash drive ever few weeks.
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May 31, 2016 at 12:06 pm #13570Thank you everyone, itβs nice to have a couple of virtual shoulders to cry on.
@Daeus I might look into it. Maybe Iβll just ask for it for my birthday.
@kate-flournoy *hands tissue* there there. I can totally understand how you would be really paranoid for the rest of the day, t kinda makes your heart stop just thinking about it. Iβd probably stop writing for the rest of the day.
@hope (I hope I tagged the right Hope there) I think youβre right about it being worse than rejection. Sounds like you lost more than I did *hands sympathetic ice cream cone*. What actually happened when my computer shut down was the file did get corrupted. When my brother tried to recover it for me it said that it had something like 52 thousand characters in it but all it was was a bunch of pound signs. πHC
May 31, 2016 at 12:13 pm #13571@hannah-c dropbox is free unless you get a business account, which is totally unnecessary.
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May 31, 2016 at 12:18 pm #13572@daeus oh ok cool! Thanks, Iβll look into it. Does it need WiFi to work though?
HC
May 31, 2016 at 12:28 pm #13573@hannah-c I believe so, but it doesnβt take much. Probably about as much as you just used visiting this page.
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May 31, 2016 at 12:34 pm #13574@daeus how about no internet at all because often times Iβm writing without any access to the internet which was where I was yesterday when my file got corrupted. Though I suppose if I had Dropbox then I could had most of it saved, just not what Iβd written yesterday.
HC
May 31, 2016 at 12:59 pm #13575@hannah-c I believe youβre right. You would have lost a little, but not much.
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May 31, 2016 at 1:13 pm #13576@daeus Iβll still look into it because I can upload it at night when I get home.
HC
June 1, 2016 at 10:25 pm #13636*shudder* This is why I use Evernote. I also keep addition copies of my chapters in Word on my computer.
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