I don't know what happened.

[sweetnpetite]

I was typing a story on my computer, had about half a page, and my fingers slipped and hit some button(s?) at the bottom of my keyboard and a noticed popped up, I clicked it off (I thought it was something else, I'm so upset now, I forgot what) and my page just disapeared! Gone! Without a trace.

 

[sweetnpetite]

It's not even in my history under 'MY Computer'!!!!

 

[SeaCat]

Don't feel bad. Just sat down out in the living room with my wife to watch a movie. fired up the laptop. (A dinosaure still running windows 95.) and it started coming up with only half a screen. Now I have to remember how to try and fix this before Wednesday when I fly out to Vermont for a week with my wifes family. I'm so pissed I could throw the thing through a window. (And I just got a new battery for the damned thing to boot, cost me more for the battery than it did for the computer.)

SeaCat

 

[shereads]

I know the feeling, SnP. I did that once with a job I'd been working on for over fourteen hours, to make a deadline at the office. I was tired, had spent the day before at a funeral, and wasn't backing up my work as I usually do.

I was nearing the finish line on the piece...Hooray!...Light at the end of the tunnel, etc., and without realizing it, I hit a key that that deleted most of the document.

Except that I didn't know it yet - the paragraph that I was finishing was still there - and I clicked "Save changes."

To be on the safe side.

14 hours of work went "poof."

There are a zillion ways to recover documents that are deleted by a screen freeze, but zero ways to recover a deletion that you've saved.

I'm exhausted just thinking about it.
Sorry, SnP.

 

[sweetnpetite]

I tried checking the unerase wizard on the Recycle Bin. NOt that I know what I'm doing, but I couldn't find it there either.

for some reason all I see in recycle are graphics.

I figured out how to search for it- keep your fingers crossed.

 

[Liar]

Yeah, that sucks. If you had only written half a page, not saved anything yet, and do a "exit program" slip, all traces of what you wrote will be lost. Too bad, I hope you can reconstruct it somewhat from memory again.

It happens ever so often when I post things in here. I start typing a lengthy, insightful (ok, as good as it gets from me) and elaborate answer to a post, and then I get distracted, goes for a cup of java, phone rings, whatever. Then when I'm back, I instinctively clear the desktop from all the clutter to open a browser window so that I can do some Lit stuff. It is only half a second after that I usually realise that what I just closed down WAS a browser window full of Lit stuff, and get that sinking ohshiiiit feling in the pit of my stomach...

#L

 

[sweetnpetite]

didn't work

 

[CharleyH]

all I know is no - you don;t - who told you?

 

[Honey123]

I feel for you Sweet, I can't get any of my new story off of a disk I saved it to and no matter what I do it will not open!!! I downloaded floppy recovery programs and still no such luck -- any suggestions?

 

[Weird Harold]

I feel for you Sweet, I can't get any of my new story off of a disk I saved it to and no matter what I do it will not open!!! I downloaded floppy recovery programs and still no such luck -- any suggestions?

Can you copy the file to your harddisk and use MS Word's "Recover Text from any File" converter to open it?

If you can't copy it, try using Scandisk on the floppy to repair the file structure and check the surfce of the diskette for errors. Then try copying it again.

 

[fifty5]

I was typing a story on my computer, had about half a page, and my fingers slipped and hit some button(s?) at the bottom of my keyboard and a noticed popped up, I clicked it off (I thought it was something else, I'm so upset now, I forgot what) and my page just disapeared! Gone! Without a trace.

Lots of symp, SnP, but "all my own fault" is the one that's hardest to get back.

Did it myself this year.  Exactly by taking all conceivable precautions to prevent loss, I wiped out a month's work (to be precise from Jan 1 to Jan 25).

The only thing is to be philosophical and tell yourself that you'll do it better the second time around.  I've always found that squirming and wriggling on the hook usually just wastes time and lets the memory fade.

Go for a re-write - it really will be better than the first go!

f5

 

[Honey123]

Can you copy the file to your harddisk and use MS Word's "Recover Text from any File" converter to open it?

If you can't copy it, try using Scandisk on the floppy to repair the file structure and check the surfce of the diskette for errors. Then try copying it again.

HI--- It won't recognize the floppy -- asks if I want to reformat!!!

I think it's lost -- and I am utterly pissed

I even tried Scandisk -- but since it will not recognize it, it just won't do it

Thanks for your help.....I want to cry!!!

 

[Liar]

HI--- It won't recognize the floppy -- asks if I want to reformat!!!

I think it's lost -- and I am utterly pissed

I even tried Scandisk -- but since it will not recognize it, it just won't do it

Thanks for your help.....I want to cry!!!

Floppy disk drives are often cheap, crappy things. I've been there a bumber of times, saving to a disk, and then the next day it wouldn't read - in the same computer. Try taking your disk to another computer and see if yiu can read it there. If that one is in better shape... who knows, you might get lucky.

sending some good geek vibes,
#L

 

[Zanzibar]

My worst was getting my disks mixed up, as I was always careful to save my work on 2 disks because I was working at different computers.

I saved the old work file on top of the new work file, and lost a nights work.

Sometimes if you drop out of Word, you can restart it up and bring stuff back by using the "recent documents" function, or check "history" and look for "document1.doc" and hope it autosaved.

Good luck!!

(PS - if it was the story we worked on together, I still have what you sent me in email )

 

[CharleyH]

I was typing a story on my computer, had about half a page, and my fingers slipped and hit some button(s?) at the bottom of my keyboard and a noticed popped up, I clicked it off (I thought it was something else, I'm so upset now, I forgot what) and my page just disapeared! Gone! Without a trace.

I am a Trace

SAVE - SAVE - SAVE EVERY souvenir, every email, every paragraph - everything, you never know when it will cum in handy.

Otherwise for you

It has never happened to me. I SAVE and TRACE (c) everything!

 

[snooper]

Consolation.

My favourite, and totally relevant, haiku:

With searching comes loss
And the presence of absence:
"My Novel" not found.


Consolation is to be found in the spell checker dictionary somewhere between copulation and cunnilingus.

 

[Honey123]

Re: Re: I don't know what happened.

I am a Trace

SAVE - SAVE - SAVE EVERY souvenir, every email, every paragraph - everything, you never know when it will cum in handy.

Otherwise for you

It has never happened to me. I SAVE and TRACE (c) everything!

Interesting, Tracey....Thanks.

But it's not as if the disk was full......I even tried "jumpstarting" it -- by putting in the disk and going into Word and hitting the "previous file opened" option and figured hitting that with the disk in might help...no such luck....computers! Gotta love to hate 'em!