Well I'm officially an idiot. Some 7,000 words into it and my thumb drive chucks a wobbly. My file is irretrivable! Go to the back up. Well that would work if I had MADE ONE!
Where is that bottle of Johnny Walker????
Back to a zero word count.
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50,207 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2007 - 04 02
its a blessing in disguise! your story is going to be way more concise this time around. You will FLY through.
Or maybe take the oppurtunity to start something totally new?
Whatever you do, DONT LET IT GET YOU DOWN. its a good, good thing.
50,338 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2007 - 05 06
welcome to my world. My whole pc went haywire - same as you, no backup, but at least I'd exported most of my work to word, so I was lucky. I now have a backup drive that's bigger than my main drive and I export to word and save in a different directory. :) Oh, and, sometimes I email it to a friend at work. :)
Jules.
----------"I'm in the middle of 15 things, all of them annoying." - Claudia Christian, B5, Season 1 - J. Michael Strazinski
50,005 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2007 - 06 08
sorry for the guys with the thumbdrives that crashed as that is irretreivable (sp?) once they die they die (roughly 100 000 read/write cycles)
however if you have a computer that dies dont fear you can usually save the data... obviously before you reformat :)
50,338 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2007 - 06 22
haha, luckily, I didn't have to reformat, but for some reason it wiped out yWriter. I blame it on Bill Gates as he is not sitting in my study with me to protest. ;)
Jules.
----------"I'm in the middle of 15 things, all of them annoying." - Claudia Christian, B5, Season 1 - J. Michael Strazinski
50,005 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2007 - 08 14
you should have been able to save the individual rtf files though even if the software was stuffed
and dont pick on Uncle Bill :P
3,927 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2007 - 17 13
Isnt picking on anyone but silly old me.
Oh well onwards and upwards.