The Horror of Hard Work Lost

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10-09-2004, 07:21 PM
Strider

The Horror of Hard Work Lost

When was the last time you lost a lot of work because of something that went unexpectantly wrong?

I was workin' on a bit of my story the other day. Now, I'm not normally "like WOW" with any of the work that I do, but the stuff I was writing was brilliant stuff. It had everything I wanted: tension, action, energy... and then, of course, something had to go wrong.

Something happened with the computer I was using and I ended up losing the whole post. I was mad, safe to say, and it still sucks two days later. I probably won't end up workin' on it for another week now. :(
10-09-2004, 07:24 PM
StarlightAngel

That happens to me when I'm working on a story or a picture. It pisses me off to no end. :mad2:
10-09-2004, 07:29 PM
DMKA

I was writing a long drawn out review for a video I had just seen on AMV.org. It was by far the longest review I'd ever written, and I had just got done, I clicked the submit button, and then "This Page Cannot Be Displayed", so I push back, and EVERYTHING is gone. I was so mad because I had spent atleast a good hour on this review, that I didn't go back to the site for like a week. I was just so mad and I never did go back and redo the review.

There have also been a few times I was doing a very leghty post here and then it wouldn't end up posting...thats why now I always copy it all before I hit submit.
10-09-2004, 08:17 PM
Del Murder

Well, it is bad sometimes, but when the work is an elaborate scheme to take over the world I am more than glad to put a stop to it.
10-09-2004, 08:22 PM
Peegee

The save function is your friend. If you're doing a long forum post, use notepad or pico or nedit or whatever :D
10-09-2004, 08:36 PM
Yamaneko

I've never worked in my life, thankfully.
10-10-2004, 12:09 AM
Leeza

That's happened to me at work quite often. I get so into what I'm typing that I forget to save and then this little window will pop up saying Explorer has performed an illegal operation and will have to shut down. Pages of work and formatting all gone, but I can't just forget about it 'cause it's work so I have to do it over again...only faster this time because I'm losing time.
10-10-2004, 02:57 AM
o_O

Well, the other day, I was working on a review for Finalgaming, and I could've sworn that I saved my work, only when I went to reopen it, I discovered that I had literally -lost- my work. Not because of a computer crash or anything, I just couldn't find it. :p
10-10-2004, 03:23 AM
Logan

I typed up my french homework, added the accents on the e's and everything, and made it fine and dandy. I clicked print and closed the window and then it told me I was out of ink. So I had to retype it on the laptop and print it downstairs.

Moral: SAVESAVESAVE. :D
10-10-2004, 03:50 AM
Rostum

Never lost anything due to my computer being silly. Only once at school, but those computers are extremely crappy.
10-10-2004, 08:02 AM
Meat Puppet

This is happened to me before, which is why I always do hard copy drafts before typing it into a word processor, and when doing that I save often.
10-10-2004, 09:05 AM
nik0tine

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yamaneko

I've never worked in my life, thankfully.
10-10-2004, 10:04 AM
Silmaril

I never had a problem like that.
10-10-2004, 11:29 AM
Arcana Duck

Ye-e-e-e-s! I was typing up my story, and the next thing I know when I start the computer up, C:\ went ka-boom! :mad2: Also, I had made a Remote script for IRC, and I had it on seven different .ini Documents. Put together, it made 15,007 lines, but oh well--that's life. :shifty: