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

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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

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Originally Posted by Kapitan_Phillips

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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.

TteFAboB · 02-11-08, 03:45 AM

Word 2003 and 2007 have an auto-backup feature that you can set to save your work every X mins. Then, if anything bad ever happens, you can go to the auto-recovery thingie and load the last back-up.

In Word 2003 go to Tools, Options, Save and check the relevant boxes.

I rarely use Word 2007 so I don't know where to go in that one.

JSLTIGER · 02-11-08, 08:56 AM

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Originally Posted by TteFAboB

Word 2003 and 2007 have an auto-backup feature that you can set to save your work every X mins. Then, if anything bad ever happens, you can go to the auto-recovery thingie and load the last back-up.

In Word 2003 go to Tools, Options, Save and check the relevant boxes.

I rarely use Word 2007 so I don't know where to go in that one.

Assuming your HDD crapping out isn't what locked you up in the first place...

Yahoshua · 02-11-08, 02:01 PM

You have my sympathies.

How did the re-write come out?

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

02-11-08, 03:45 AM	#8
TteFAboB Admiral Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 2,247 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	Word 2003 and 2007 have an auto-backup feature that you can set to save your work every X mins. Then, if anything bad ever happens, you can go to the auto-recovery thingie and load the last back-up. In Word 2003 go to Tools, Options, Save and check the relevant boxes. I rarely use Word 2007 so I don't know where to go in that one. __________________ "Tout ce qui est exagéré est insignifiant." ("All that is exaggerated is insignificant.") - Talleyrand

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

02-11-08, 02:01 PM	#10
Yahoshua The Old Man Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 1,493 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	You have my sympathies. How did the re-write come out? __________________ Science is the organized unpredictability that strives not to set limits to mans' capabilities, but is the engine by which the limits of mans' understanding is defined-Yahoshua