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I just lost a page of hard-won writing.
I was composing it in MS Word, and it seems my laptop decided to update last night. So when I went to open my as-yet unnamed and unsaved document, it no longer existed.
I know it is my fault, but FFS. An already frustrating day has now just entered the ‘F-word Zone’.
EDIT: I just realised it was TWO documents I lost.
****.
Oh Flip!
The second draft is always better anyway.
a) Save
b) It should be recoverable via auto-save.
c) You can stop it automatically updating on its own, but only if it's not a critical update.
I feel your pain.
When I was writing up my final year project at uni I had four, yes four, backups - three at home and one on the college server, all checked at least weekly. About a week before it was due I was suddenly unable to save the document. Eek! Went to backup 1, same thing, in fact all four backups were corrupt - I could read them, which is what I'd checked, but I couldn't save them.
I ended up copying it paragraph by paragraph into a new document until I found the errant section which turned out to be a corrupt embedded formula.
When I had a Windows machine I'd repartition the HDD and have installed programs and documents on a separate logical drive to the OS.
File / Manage Document / select Recover Unsaved Documents.
a) Save
... to OneDrive. Rolling autosaves and versioning FTW.
d) get a Mac 😉a) Save
b) It should be recoverable via auto-save.
c) You can stop it automatically updating on its own, but only if it’s not a critical update.
When I had a Windows machine I’d repartition the HDD and have installed programs and documents on a separate logical drive to the OS.
Yeah. That was a sensible thing to do on Windows XP.
b) It should be recoverable via auto-save
This.
Also:
I just lost a page of hard-won writing.
Is about 15 minutes work. Bit lightweight compared to Protrepticus
Is about 15 minutes work.
Normally, yes. But I qualified it with ‘hard-won’. Not everything always rolls effortlessly off the fingertips.
Cougar - I think it was that long ago that I last had a Windows machine at home. Last place but one for work had Windows for general stuff and Linux for development so that will have been eight years ago since I left there. Those were definitely XP.
I would search the hard disk for files created today. There might be an autosaved copy somewhere.
Is about 15 minutes work.
Normally, yes. But I qualified it with ‘hard-won’. Not everything always rolls effortlessly off the fingertips.
Yet you couldn't be bothered, at any point, to press ctrl-S?
Hope you can recover it!
to OneDrive
He's NOT going to be able to cope with One Drive... 😉
That ‘page’ has not ceased to exist - it’s still somewhere in your computer. I assume you’ve searched the Internet for an answer?
Yeah. That was a sensible thing to do on Windows XP.
Why not later versions?