I'm so pissed off I could SCREAM right now! - Page 2

Blacklight · 02-10-08, 09:02 PM

Back in the mid 80's, I had written a novel for my Creative Writing class and of course being a stuped teen, didn't back the sucker up and the hard drive blew. I still remember that it was 374 pages.

I also lost a good 150+ pages of poetry and song lyrics.

I ended up having to rewrite the whole novel from scratch again (Lucky I had a binder with the bible for the story at the time). I don't know whatever happened to that book. I submitted it and then let it drop into obscurity on floppy disks. The floppies HAVE to be gone by now. I STILL do have the bible for the book. I should rewrite it.

Lesson learned. Back it up.. back it up often... and back it up onto multiple types of media.

Stealth Hunter · 02-10-08, 09:11 PM

There ya go, SubNuts.

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, 09:02 PM	#16
Blacklight Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Connecticut Posts: 2,507 Downloads: 145 Uploads: 0	Back in the mid 80's, I had written a novel for my Creative Writing class and of course being a stuped teen, didn't back the sucker up and the hard drive blew. I still remember that it was 374 pages. I also lost a good 150+ pages of poetry and song lyrics. I ended up having to rewrite the whole novel from scratch again (Lucky I had a binder with the bible for the story at the time). I don't know whatever happened to that book. I submitted it and then let it drop into obscurity on floppy disks. The floppies HAVE to be gone by now. I STILL do have the bible for the book. I should rewrite it. Lesson learned. Back it up.. back it up often... and back it up onto multiple types of media. __________________ Be my friend or be a mushroom cloud. "I am coming at you. You will explode in a couple of minutes !"

02-11-08, 03:45 AM	#18
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

02-11-08, 02:01 PM	#20
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

02-10-08, 09:11 PM	#17
Stealth Hunter Silent Hunter Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Y'ha-Nthlei Posts: 4,262 Downloads: 19 Uploads: 0	There ya go, SubNuts.