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[apocalypsos]

I was just finishing up my little Lost crossover story and was seriously sliding the mouse up to save the file when the power went out and there went all my work.

RAGE RAGE RAGE. *throws things*

Comments

[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

*flies around the earth really fast to turn back time and tell you to save 30 seconds earlier*

A few suggestions

[redhawk.livejournal.com]

1) Save early, save often
2) Look into the concept of a UPS.

Redhawk

Re: A few suggestions

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I really didn't have that much farther to go in the story, which is why I didn't save often like I usually do. But still ... *temper tantrum*

Re: A few suggestions

[seferin.livejournal.com]

No autosave?

[illmantrim.livejournal.com]

ack!
Thats never good!
asends in the chocolate!

[mice.livejournal.com]

...Beast Icon...where did you get the picture? It's worth more than a thousand Hank words...!

[illmantrim.livejournal.com]

Google Image-Searches are my friend!

[mice.livejournal.com]

I know I'm asking a lot, but what was your search word? I've used Beast, Hank, Hank McCoy, Henry McCoy strings with not too much success...

[illmantrim.livejournal.com]

I just keep doing all of those and make sure there are no filters on - just search again anhd again every few days and you hit the jackpot - also UI lightened that pic out and added some contrast so it was darker and might be one you wouldnt pick normally

[illmantrim.livejournal.com]

Itis a mixture of all of those and doing it again and again and looking in hidden spots on pages that seem hopeless

[jtersesk.livejournal.com]

Times like that make me happy I have a laptop - battery power!

But yeah, major suckage! :( Sometimes I kick the power cord (accidentally) on my work computer and the computer shuts down. Most of the time I don't lose anything important. ... Most of the time.

[clauw.livejournal.com]

If it's a computer that's Pre windows XP you actually have a pretty good chance it's in your tempfiles. It won't be named like you named it but you might be able to save it.
Good luck :/

[99catsaway.livejournal.com]

But your icon is so cute!

[beanarie.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I'm so sorry! A few years ago the disk I'd been using to hold all my WIP fics died without warning. I totally empathize.

[gruyere.livejournal.com]

Funny, this was one of the last entries I read on my flist this morning before the power went out where I live. (X-ref my most recent entry.)

[zephiey.livejournal.com]

Do you have autosave active in Word? If you do then the file is still there. Restart MS Word and the file should appear; the only thing missing will be what was written after the last AutoSave.

[zephiey.livejournal.com]

If you are using Win98 Autosave places the files in default location of Windows\Application Data\Microsoft\Word folder.

If Windows is a later version then the files are stored in the Windows\Profiles\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Word folder

[muffytaj.livejournal.com]

That's why I save every 5 seconds. Shouldn't it have an auto-save though, so when you turn it back on and open word, it re-appears in a side-bar?