FREAK!

[ithildin]

I just about had a heart attack. I opened my Word doc for 'I Am Going To The West' to find part nine, 1500 words worth, was gone. I have no clue how it happened. Thankfully, Eudora creates a copy of any file you send as an attachment, and that copy had part nine still on it. But till I found it, I was in a panic. If it hadn't been there, I was desperately hoping strangevisitor7 had kept the newest copy I'd sent her. Whew! Has to be the oddest Word experience ever. And I hope it never happens again!

Comments

[mischief5.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is scary. Thank goodness for backup copies.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Man, I would have been in tears if I didn't have a copy somewhere.

[mprice.livejournal.com]

I've had that happen with word. I had the entire document vanish from my work computer. Fortunately, I had sent a copy to myself to edit at home and never got around to it.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Truly odd.

[aeron-lanart.livejournal.com]

Ack!
Can I just say that saving something as a googledoc is a very good idea as it prevents just this sort of thing, even if you don't like writing the damn thing as a googledoc. If you don't have a googlemail account, it's worth getting one just for that.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

I did! But that copy was missing part nine as well. so it happened at some point between sending the copy to Casey and uploading it to Google docs. And Word is showing the last time I modified the doc as Oct 12. so it's like it went back in time.

[strangevisitor7.livejournal.com]

I happily volunteer as your back-up! All is safe on my computer now. :D

[grachonok.livejournal.com]

Strange... but it's Windows, everything might happen, so thank goodness for "sent" folder!

[det-munch.livejournal.com]

wow glad it worked out :)

[tpena19.livejournal.com]

wowzer, what a freaky thing. I hate computer problems like that, that happened to me before on a long ass report for a grad class.

[layla-aaron.livejournal.com]

That is one of the worst feelings in the world. *hugs* I'm so glad you had a way to retrieve it.