Saving Work

[Larry Davis]

Check this out. A couple of days ago, I wrote three scenes worth of dialogue and forgot to save it. Now, I have to start over again. I'm pissed. Have you all ever been through the same thing?

[Valkyrie]

Yes, I've lost work before.  Word is good about autosaving documents, but I'm now in the habit of saving after every paragraph or so.  I once lost about 3/4 of a chapter I had hand-written, but thankfully found it before I went back and re-wrote the entire thing.  

[Brayon]

It's happened to me about 3 times over the past year. Thank goodness, for OneDrive and Google Drive. I back-up everything to both.

[FormerMember4]

2 hours ago, Valkyrie said:

Yes, I've lost work before.  Word is good about autosaving documents, but I'm now in the habit of saving after every paragraph or so.  I once lost about 3/4 of a chapter I had hand-written, but thankfully found it before I went back and re-wrote the entire thing.  

I’m like Val. Auto save and save every few paragraphs. I had a major paper in college that I lost a huge amount of data. Now I’m OCD about it.

[Valkyrie]

5 minutes ago, BlindAmbition said:

I’m like Val. Auto save and save every few paragraphs. I had a major paper in college that I lost a huge amount of data. Now I’m OCD about it.

Same here.  I learned my lesson after a large research paper I had just completed was deleted by virus protection when I was in college. Back then, there was no quarantine... the program just deleted any infected files.  And I had no backup and hadn't printed it yet.  So I had to completely re-write the entire thing.  After that incident, I made sure to have multiple back ups.  

[Superpride]

2 hours ago, Larry Davis said:

Check this out. A couple of days ago, I wrote three scenes worth of dialogue and forgot to save it. Now, I have to start over again. I'm pissed. Have you all ever been through the same thing?

 

Losing material that I just written never happened to me personally, thank goodness, but I have old stories in a very old laptop that refuses to fully operates, so that really sucks.  It would be nice to look back at my first stories I written during my high school years and see how much I've improved since then while also reminiscing about the characters and plots that I have written.  I still have the laptop, so maybe someday I will get it working long enough to get the documents into a thumb drive or something similar.

[Mikiesboy]

Word auto saves and i use google drive, dropbox and one drive. Ive never lost any work though.

[CassieQ]

8 hours ago, Superpride said:

 

Losing material that I just written never happened to me personally, thank goodness, but I have old stories in a very old laptop that refuses to fully operates, so that really sucks.  It would be nice to look back at my first stories I written during my high school years and see how much I've improved since then while also reminiscing about the characters and plots that I have written.  I still have the laptop, so maybe someday I will get it working long enough to get the documents into a thumb drive or something similar.

I had a ton of stuff I wrote in high school on an external hard drive and floppy disks that were destroyed in a fire.  It sucks.  

[Pmsingtiger]

Yeah I lost 40,000 words once, back when I wrote on a laptop and it died and that was all she wrote. Now google docs is a life saver ❤️ 

[Superpride]

12 hours ago, Pmsingtiger said:

Yeah I lost 40,000 words once, back when I wrote on a laptop and it died and that was all she wrote. Now google docs is a life saver ❤️ 

 

Gosh!  I'm sorry that happened to you.  That's like a small novel that you lost because of what happened to your laptop.  But thank goodness for today's technology like Google Docs.  And a funny thing just happened with the library at my university losing power for a second and I had to retype this reply all over again LOL.

[Pmsingtiger]

1 hour ago, Superpride said:

 

Gosh!  I'm sorry that happened to you.  That's like a small novel that you lost because of what happened to your laptop.  But thank goodness for today's technology like Google Docs.  And a funny thing just happened with the library at my university losing power for a second and I had to retype this reply all over again LOL.

That's why I write everything on my Mac and on google docs it's like double save. It wasn't that good of a story so no big loss. 

[FormerMember4]

3 minutes ago, Pmsingtiger said:

That's why I write everything on my Mac and on google docs it's like double save. It wasn't that good of a story so no big loss. 

I do the same and save to Time Machine as well. Important to check backups to make sure they don’t become corrupted.