I Wrote; I Lost The File!
Arghhhhhh!
Last week I drafted another sample chapter for a client who is having trouble deciding exactly what they want in the book I’m ghosting. At least I’m 99% sure I did, but somehow I didn’t save it. I ended up emailing the original sample of that style, which she and her adviser had seen before. They wondered why I sent it and I wondered why I hadn’t heard anything one way or the other.
Makes me slightly crazy, or think I am. And yes, I know it happens to everyone once in a while, and yes, it hasn’t happened to me in ages so I guess I was overdue. And yes, re-creating it will probably result in a better chapter. But darn!
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8 opinions for I Wrote; I Lost The File!
Meryl K. Evans
May 13, 2008 at 7:05 pm
This happened to me last week. I opened a file I had on the Web, worked on it, and closed it. Then poof. Not even in the temp files. And I even did the slowest search possible. Ah, what can you do?
Just be mad for a little bit and do something else — it will pass.
Anne Wayman
May 14, 2008 at 9:08 am
I suspect there’s some major lesson in lost files we’re all trying to learn… sigh
Meryl K. Evans
May 14, 2008 at 9:26 am
I’ve learned my lessons and have processes in place. This was a freak accident.
Anne Wayman
May 14, 2008 at 11:33 am
how are you handling your backups, Meryl?
Meryl K. Evans
May 14, 2008 at 11:36 am
I have a network drive that has nothing but data — not a computer or anything as it can’t get messed up by programs.
I backup to it every night. This file somehow never even made it to my hard drive to get backed up.
Anne Wayman
May 14, 2008 at 12:26 pm
network drive? is that like an extra hard drive? I”m not on a network at home…
Meryl K. Evans
May 14, 2008 at 2:54 pm
This explains how I do it:
http://meryl.net/2006/08/10/backing-up-data-and-synctoy/
Anne Wayman
May 15, 2008 at 9:55 am
thanks!
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