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Title: Trips to places you didnt know you were going to make...
Post by: claypigeons on July 23, 2006, 10:43:40 PM
Well, I'm back from my trip downstate. Kind of a spur of the moment thing, which wouldnt be so bad, except that I literally got up to answer the door, and 10 minutes later I was in the car.

This wouldnt be so bad, except that during the weekend, this area lost power, and the folder I had sitting next the computer had its contents scattered. The former wouldn't be bad, if I had actually remembered to save what I was working on before I rushed out the door. The folder contained a lot of my hand written notes for my setting, most of which were recovered, a few weren't.

So, in the aftermath of my trip, I can start again on my world. The work I was doing will be delayed slightly, but the world shall begin again.



P.S. ALWAYS freaking save your work. Even if you are on fire, save your work. (I lost about 10 typed and formatted pages..)
Title: Trips to places you didnt know you were going to make...
Post by: Numinous on July 24, 2006, 12:13:26 AM
Quote from: claypigeonsThis wouldnt be so bad, except that during the weekend, this area lost power, and the folder I had sitting next the computer had its contents scattered. The former wouldn't be bad, if I had actually remembered to save what I was working on before I rushed out the door. The folder contained a lot of my hand written notes for my setting, most of which were recovered, a few weren't.
P.S. ALWAYS freaking save your work. Even if you are on fire, save your work. (I lost about 10 typed and formatted pages..)[/quote]
Good to know.
Title: Trips to places you didnt know you were going to make...
Post by: Ninja D! on July 24, 2006, 01:21:21 AM
I'd double save even if I were on fire.
Title: Trips to places you didnt know you were going to make...
Post by: Poseptune on July 24, 2006, 10:19:23 AM
I have conditioned my hand to hit ctrl-s every few seconds.

10 pages lost??? Ouch! I would have saved after every page at the very least.
Title: Trips to places you didnt know you were going to make...
Post by: Xathan on July 24, 2006, 10:25:12 AM
Power out this weekend? You don't happen to live in St. Louis, do you?


Sorry about the page loss, I've had that happen to me before. I, too, hit ctrl-s ever so often when typing to avoid future mishaps.
Title: Trips to places you didnt know you were going to make...
Post by: claypigeons on July 24, 2006, 04:16:38 PM
Quoteower out this weekend? You don't happen to live in St. Louis, do you?

Northern Michigan actually. Random power outage from what I can tell. No storms, no strong winds... Weird.

QuoteSorry about the page loss, I've had that happen to me before. I, too, hit ctrl-s ever so often when typing to avoid future mishaps.

I think from now on, I am going to save all the time. Every paagraph. I'm not sure how I got that far without saving. Guess I got on a roll and just went with it.