I Wrote; I Lost The File!
May 12, 2008 by Anne Wayman
Filed under Jobs
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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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.
I suspect there’s some major lesson in lost files we’re all trying to learn… sigh
I’ve learned my lessons and have processes in place. This was a freak accident.
how are you handling your backups, Meryl?
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.
network drive? is that like an extra hard drive? I”m not on a network at home…
This explains how I do it:
http://meryl.net/2006/08/10/backing-up-data-and-synctoy/
thanks!