In a practical sense, it is better to have pissed into the wind, than to have shit into a hurricane.

Gremlins are always present in every computer just waiting to destroy a masterpiece. I periodically, highlight, right click mouse, "save", but do not paste. If it gets wiped out at least some of it can be retrieved off the clipboard.

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Well, I think I forgot for a moment that I am a software developer. I've used every text editor from vi to pine to emacs and even fancy ones for the iPad.

I draft our articles in a rich text editor for our CMS, and it works well until you encounter a stateless situation like I did yesterday. Hard lesson to learn, but it could be worse I guess. I could have shit into a hurricane. Haha.

I did appreciate the T.E. Lawrence story. Many have suffered much worse than I.

Yeah, like Barnstormer points out, even Moses lost text.

Exodus 32:15 Then Moses turned and went down from the mountain with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand, tablets which were written on both sides; they were written on one side and the other.

Exodus 32:19 [ Moses’ Anger ] It came about, as soon as Moses came near the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing; and Moses’ anger burned, and he threw the tablets from his hands and shattered them at the foot of the mountain.

Exodus 34:1 [ The Two Tablets Replaced ] Now the Lord said to Moses, “Cut out for yourself two stone tablets like the former ones, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets which you shattered.

Exodus 34:4 So he cut out two stone tablets like the former ones, and Moses rose up early in the morning and went up to Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and he took two stone tablets in his hand.

Are you there God? It's me, Zane

rw2 wrote:Are you there God? It's me, Zane

"please send me back in time"

I work in newspapers. Stories and stories about lost stories. I've seen some of the most hard bitten newsmen break down and cry because they didn't hit save every so often. You're in very good company.

Jeeze, don't all good editors have an "autosave" function that you can set?

NimpoCub wrote:Jeeze, don't all good editors have an "autosave" function that you can set?

The modern technique is iterative version control, not just for code but for content too. Combine that with auto save and it's good. Without archived previous versions you can make a bunch of changes, they get auto saved, but if you want to revert it's gone.