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

Subnuts · 02-10-08, 12:27 PM

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...

elite_hunter_sh3 · 02-10-08, 12:33 PM

hehe,, happened to me too

kiwi_2005 · 02-10-08, 12:42 PM

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.

STEED · 02-10-08, 12:43 PM

RULE NO.1

BACK IT ALL UP.

PS: We're all been there, crud.

JSLTIGER · 02-10-08, 01:22 PM

Been there, done that...

Kapitan_Phillips · 02-10-08, 02:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JSLTIGER

Been there, done that...

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

STEED · 02-10-08, 02:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kapitan_Phillips

Quote:

Originally Posted by JSLTIGER

Been there, done that...

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

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

Tchocky · 02-10-08, 02:57 PM

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

Skybird · 02-10-08, 03:02 PM

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).

Tchocky · 02-10-08, 03:14 PM

Check the Temp folder!

Peto · 02-10-08, 05:10 PM

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

.

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

. 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.

bookworm_020 · 02-10-08, 05:24 PM

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

geetrue · 02-10-08, 07:08 PM

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

Good luck

Brag · 02-10-08, 07:45 PM

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.

Subnuts · 02-10-08, 08:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brag

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:

02-10-08, 12:27 PM	#1
Subnuts The Old Man Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Connecticut Posts: 1,658 Downloads: 14 Uploads: 0	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...

02-10-08, 12:42 PM	#3
kiwi_2005 Eternal Patrol Join Date: May 2004 Location: Aeoteroa Posts: 7,382 Downloads: 223 Uploads: 1	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. __________________ RIP kiwi_2005 Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others.

02-10-08, 12:43 PM	#4
STEED Lucky Jack Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Down Town UK Posts: 27,695 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 48	RULE NO.1 BACK IT ALL UP. PS: We're all been there, crud. __________________ Dr Who rest in peace 1963-2017. To borrow Davros saying...I NAME YOU CHIBNALL THE DESTROYER OF DR WHO YOU KILLED IT!

02-10-08, 01:22 PM	#5
JSLTIGER The Old Man Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Parkland, FL, USA Posts: 1,437 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Been there, done that... __________________ Thor: Intel Core i7 4770K\|ASUS Z87Pro\|32GB DDR3 RAM\|11GB EVGA GeForce RTX 2080Ti Black\|256GB Crucial M4 SSD+2TB WD HDD\|4X LG BD-RE\|32" Acer Predator Z321QU 165Hz G-Sync (2540x1440)\|Logitech Z-323 2.1 Sound\|Win 10 Pro Explorer (MSI GL63 8RE-629 Laptop): Intel Core i7 8750H\|16GB DDR4 RAM\|6GB GeForce GTX 1060\|128GB SSD+1TB HDD\|15.6" Widescreen (1920x1080)\|Logitech R-20 2.1 Sound\|Win 10 Home

02-10-08, 02:57 PM	#8
Tchocky Navy Seal Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,874 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	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 __________________ [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

02-10-08, 12:33 PM	#2
elite_hunter_sh3 The Old Man Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,376 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	hehe,, happened to me too

02-10-08, 03:02 PM	#9
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,612 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	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). __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

02-10-08, 03:14 PM	#10
Tchocky Navy Seal Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,874 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	Check the Temp folder! __________________ [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

02-10-08, 05:10 PM	#11
Peto Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: The details of my life are quite inconsequential Posts: 1,049 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	A painfull experience that most of us can empathize with to be sure... It definitely falls into the "that sucks" category . 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 . 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. __________________ If your target has a 30 degree AOB, the range from his base course line equals the current range divided by 2.

02-10-08, 05:24 PM	#12
bookworm_020 Navy Seal Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Sinking ships off the Australian coast Posts: 5,966 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	Been there, Done that, have the dents on my desk to prove it! __________________ "There is always one person in any organization who knows whats going on, That person must be fired"

02-10-08, 07:08 PM	#13
geetrue Cold War Boomer Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Walla Walla Posts: 2,837 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Whenever this happens to me ... it usually turns out better the second time. Good luck __________________

02-10-08, 07:45 PM	#14
Brag Navy Seal Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Docked on a Russian pond Posts: 7,072 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	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. __________________ Espionage, adventure, suspense, are just a click away Click here to look inside Brag's book: Amazon.com: Kingmaker: Alexey Braguine: Books Order Kingmaker here: http://www.subsim.com/store.html For Tactics visit:http://www.freewebs.com/kielman/

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