So, I was typing away, testing out a new version of Chapter 1 with the Great Gatsby theme. I save regularly, and at one point reached up to click save. A little window popped up, telling me in Computerese that I had some error saving. I frowned, and clicked okay. A second window, this time with a serious looking logo, telling me that the document had more problems. Okay. Third window, saying that Word needed to close. At this point I was concerned, but mainly just confused.
Then I reopened Word and the new version was GONE. I searched in every file, in every way I knew how, but the whole thing had suddenly ceased to exist. As you can imagine, I went into freak out mode.
Luckily, I remembered enough to rewrite the whole thing, though it took me over an hour. The whole experience has freaked me out now. What if that had been my novel??? I mean, I save almost every time on a flash drive, but what if it still had problems? What if???
So, now I am all worried about how to save my work. I've heard of internet storage sights, but never looked into it. What do you do? Any tips?
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Someone in my writers group said they email their work to their email address and save it there too. But to just save it in word should work--that would worry me as you know I am ignorant on a lot of that stuff!
Did you try shutting down your computer and see if it comes up saved then? That works for me at times.
Oh scary, very scary. I acutally have an external hard drive and I back up my whole comp every night. I also hve my most important documents in email.
I had a hard drive crash once, and every single file was lost. Anything not backed up outside the computer was permanently gone. I always save important files on Word and 2 times externally. I've also at times saved on an email that can be accessed anywhere.
That's awful, Renee! How disheartening!
Anytime I make changes, I email my documents to myself. Then they're saved in my email, and I can access them anywhere.
Ah, email it to myself. That's brilliant.
Right now, I have it saved on two flash drives, and in Word, but it still worries me. I'd feel better knowing it was away from my crappy, virusy Word.
Thanks all! :)
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