I'm so pissed off I could SCREAM right now!
 

Just thought I'd vent.

I just spent two hours doing a 1,200 word writeup on Peter Smith's Midway : Dauntless Victory, which I'd received a review copy of back in early January. I do all my finishing touches, fix my spelling errors, and basically make the review look all nice and pretty for when Neal sees it. So, I click "submit", and...well, sometime during those two hours, the forum decided to log me out, leaving me unable to access the subsim crew forum, with the forum giving me a "don't go there!" message, because I'm not logged in anymore. Now, if I'd just copied and pasted the entire review before hitting "submit", I'd have a back up plan. But NO! I copied and pasted the entire review into Word, did a spell check, and closed Word without saving my review! And being an idiot, I had nothing to fall back on, except the last word I'd spell checked! This is why you should ALWAYS write your long posts in some kind of word processing program FIRST, people! Now it's all back to square one again...:damn:

hehe,, happened to me too :damn::arrgh!:

:damn: I was going to say try using a recovery program or demo even like win-undelete but you never saved it then accidently delete it so i dont think it would work.

RULE NO.1

BACK IT ALL UP. :yep:








PS: We're all been there, crud. :damn:

Been there, done that...:damn:

Same here. Lost three chapters of a novel I was writing. :shifty:

Are fecking feck we got another Brag in the making, we're doomed. :damn:

Sometimes AutoComplete (or somesuch feature) will keep stuff for you. Just hammer the back button until you either find it or your tears short out the keyboard :)

What Tchocky said. Check if Word hasn't already made some backup copy, the index for such a document would be .bck, or something like that (anybody correct me if i'm giving the wrong index, i am not sure).

Check the Temp folder!

A painfull experience that most of us can empathize with to be sure... It definitely falls into the "that sucks" category :nope:.

I had a customer bring me her computer one day because she couldn't get to a document she had been working on for a few months. No backup or hard copys either. Total hard drive crash. The document she had lost? Her doctorate thesis :doh:. We sent the drive to Drive Savers and for $1600 she was able to get about half of it back--in fragments. She was happy to get what she did though.

She now backs up her work a little more zealously.

Been there, Done that, have the dents on my desk to prove it!:damn:

Whenever this happens to me ... it usually turns out better the second time.

Good luck :yep:

A virus ate one of my novels, all 114,000 words. Best thing that ever happened to me. I rewrote the thing and it came out soooo much better than the original.

The same thing just happened with my Dauntless Victory review! :rotfl: