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Wed Sep 03, 2014 2:50 pm

Pissing into the wind

It even happens to me, someone who is very comfortable with technology and computers.

I'm working on my Alaska trip report and just lost about 500 words when I hit the save button after having cleared my cookies and cache as I update our CSS. It makes a grown man feel like crying. Writing is such a creative, fleeting process. I'll never get that back.

The events don't change but the story is hard to replicate. Harsh words have been...ejected with force. The pets have run for cover. Nothing left to do but whine.

Always CTRL+A (select all), CTRL+C before submitting.
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Wed Sep 03, 2014 2:55 pm

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Zzz wrote:I'm working on my Alaska trip report and just lost about 500 words when I hit the save button after having cleared my cookies and cache as I update our CSS. It makes a grown man feel like crying. Writing is such a creative, fleeting process. I'll never get that back.


Sucks! Sorry dude!
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Wed Sep 03, 2014 3:24 pm

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Just one reason why I do any lengthy stuff in Text Edit, I too have lost stuff before. Sorry bro.
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Wed Sep 03, 2014 3:37 pm

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Been there done that Zane, it really sucks. Sorry.
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Wed Sep 03, 2014 3:41 pm

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I always do everything in word with auto save set to back my dumb ass up as often as possible. Then copy n paste so I always have the original safe and backed up. You may loose 2 or 3 minutes worth of typing, but unless your blindingly fast, your not gonna loose 500 words LOL
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Wed Sep 03, 2014 4:18 pm

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I need to do this. I had a pretty cool write-up to some of the first pictures I ever posted on here (the ones of us in the field in the Yukon Flats Training Area).

Lost it all thanks to a computer force restart. Never got the motivation to write all that again.

And mine was nowhere near 500 words. That sucks, Z.
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Wed Sep 03, 2014 4:32 pm

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Whenever that happens to me I try to remind myself that a giant magnetic meteor will strike the world in the winter of 2378 wiping out all records known of mankind, even the ones that were forgotten by a slip of the command-back arrow. This means everything is lost, including my diary and BCP commentary, which is right up there with Barry Manilow's greatest hits as far as magnetic digital media goes.





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Wed Sep 03, 2014 4:36 pm

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Yep, happy to have you in the club....you are now truly a journalist..... #-o

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Wed Sep 03, 2014 4:47 pm

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wyomingiswindy wrote:Whenever that happens to me I try to remind myself that a giant magnetic meteor will strike the world in the winter of 2378 wiping out all records known of mankind, even the ones that were forgotten by a slip of the command-back arrow. This means everything is lost, including my diary and BCP commentary, which is right up there with Barry Manilow's greatest hits as far as magnetic digital media goes.





That's why, for a limited time OBP is etching your BCP posts in tungsten infused cobalt66. ~50 year lead-time, but well get her done eventually. Sign up now!



You had me until cobalt66. I had to look it up, but a 0.18s half-life doesn't look good for your long-term business plan.

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Wed Sep 03, 2014 4:51 pm

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You could always ask the NSA.
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Wed Sep 03, 2014 5:08 pm

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You need a copy of EnCase!

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EnCase
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Wed Sep 03, 2014 6:24 pm

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TE Lawrence lost the first draft of seven pillars of wisdom:

From WIKI:

Lawrence kept extensive notes throughout the course of his involvement in the Revolt. He began work on a clean narrative in the first half of 1919 while in Paris for the Peace Conference and, later that summer, while back in Egypt. By December 1919, he had a fair draft of most of the ten books that make up the Seven Pillars of Wisdom but lost it (except for the introduction and final two books) when he misplaced his briefcase while changing trains at Reading railway station.[4] National newspapers alerted the public to the loss of the "hero's manuscript", but to no avail; the draft remained lost. Lawrence refers to this version as "Text I" and says that had it been published, it would have been some 250,000 words in length.

In early 1920, Lawrence set about the daunting task of rewriting as much as he could remember of the first version. Working from memory alone (he had destroyed many of his wartime notes upon completion of the corresponding parts of Text I), he was able to complete this "Text II", 400,000 words long, in three months. Lawrence described this version as "hopelessly bad" in literary terms, but historically it was "substantially complete and accurate".
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Wed Sep 03, 2014 6:34 pm

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Zzz wrote:It even happens to me, someone who is very comfortable with technology and computers.

I'm working on my Alaska trip report and just lost about 500 words when I hit the save button after having cleared my cookies and cache as I update our CSS. It makes a grown man feel like crying. Writing is such a creative, fleeting process. I'll never get that back.

The events don't change but the story is hard to replicate. Harsh words have been...ejected with force. The pets have run for cover. Nothing left to do but whine.

Always CTRL+A (select all), CTRL+C before submitting.



NOOOOOOOOOooooooooooo........... :cry:

I finally got my wife to start doing the same thing on long web-based emails, too. I've learned this lesson the hard way a few times, too. That sucks!!
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Wed Sep 03, 2014 6:42 pm

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My verbal eruption upon losing a significant portion of a report I was contracted to write scared our dog way too much. Now she hides when I enter the computer room. She doesn't even wait for the next problem to occur. I have backups upon backups now. I do most of my writing in word with auto backup to both the main hard drive and to a removable hard drive that provides an additional layer of redundancy. All of those precautions won't bring the dog back to my feet when I am at the keyboard. As a result I try to spend less time on the computer and that makes both me and the dog happier...
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Wed Sep 03, 2014 6:46 pm

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Buy a Mac. :D
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Wed Sep 03, 2014 7:06 pm

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gbflyer wrote:Buy a Mac. :D


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Wed Sep 03, 2014 7:35 pm

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You're in good company. Moses lost 5 of the 15 commandments!
http://youtu.be/4TAtRCJIqnk
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Wed Sep 03, 2014 7:38 pm

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as many have already said, always always always write up your big stories in the application of choice, word, textedit, pages, that has an auto save feature and then copy and paste.
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Wed Sep 03, 2014 8:21 pm

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Perhaps you are too comfortable with technology and computers? Never, ever, ever compose anything of more than 140 character tweet in a web browser - that is unless you don't value your time. I wouldn't even trust it to any garbage Microsoft product.

vi - the text editor that built the world
git - revision control

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Wed Sep 03, 2014 8:38 pm

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God save the "vi" editor!
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