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8:48am on Friday, 7th July, 2023:
Anecdote
Yesterday afternoon was very productive. I managed to write a couple of thousand words about virtual worlds that weren't hard to write but had been hanging over me because there were a couple of thousand of them.
At the end, when I quit Word, it threw a wobbly and got stuck repeatedly asking me where I wanted my work saved. It didn't need to ask, because I was editing an existing file that I'd just saved moments before. Then, the other Word file I had opened started doing the same where-do-you-want-it-saved thing when it auto-saved.
Concerned that I might lose my work, I copied the file to my desktop. Then, I closed down the second file I had open by saying no, I didn't want to save it. This closed the first file, too.
I had indeed lost all my work. Word thought it had done its job, so had removed all the partial saves it keeps. I tried using Windows File Recovery to get these temporary files back, but to no avail. The file I had been editing was as it was at its last recovery point. I have no idea why that would be the case, because I'd saved manually multiple times while writing, but it's what happened.
OK, so I can repeat the work, but it won't be quicker. It'll still be a couple of thousand words I have to type.
Augh! Damn damn damn!
I've lost far, far more work during backups than I have any other way.
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