Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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Error error error.

Did you know that a Microsoft Word error can not only crash your file, it can delete it?

The whole file?

The whole four hundred page novel file?

The whole four hundred page, no backups from this week file?

Pardon me while I go non-linear.
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scholarinexile

March 11 2009, 01:24:10 UTC 8 years ago

Unfortunately, I do know this. It can also delete one's entire master's thesis, and if does so during the process of backing it up, it can delete the backup as well. So I feel your pain. Gods...I'm so sorry, sweetie. Any chance of any sort of recovery software?

kyra_neko_rei

March 11 2009, 03:00:08 UTC 8 years ago

Oh, gods, that is worse.

My chemistry professor's laptop was stolen out of his office when he stepped down the hall to the printer to retrieve his (multiple-hundred-pages) tenure-request documentation, which he had just, for the first time, printed. No other backups.

This is why I have a love affair with flash drives.

scholarinexile

March 11 2009, 04:33:51 UTC 8 years ago

Alas, I was in the process of putting my thesis on a flash drive when it was deleted. That incident set back my entire graduate career a good six months and was likely a factor in my failure to get into a the Ph.D. program I wanted, and thus has affected the course of my life ever since. Granted, I like my life right now and wouldn't have ended up where I am had I gone on to my Ph.D., so perhaps it was all for the best.

But as someone who writes fiction as well as doing science, I would consider the loss of that big a chunk of fiction far, far worse than the loss of a thesis. A master's thesis can be reconstituted from notes and texts. Fiction unrecorded elsewhere will likely never be the same no matter how you rebuild it. From where I'm sitting, Seanan has it worse than I did.

kyra_neko_rei

March 11 2009, 05:05:39 UTC 8 years ago

True, that.

batyatoon

March 11 2009, 01:48:05 UTC 8 years ago

I am quite aware that sitting here going "AUGH AUGH AUGH" on your behalf is not remotely helpful, but I thought you should be aware it's happening.

AUGH!

genre_savvy

March 11 2009, 01:53:59 UTC 8 years ago

I'm so sorry.

erinwrites

March 11 2009, 01:57:40 UTC 8 years ago

Augh. So sorry. :(

stakebait

March 11 2009, 02:29:19 UTC 8 years ago

I am so sorry.

You're not running the Norton Utilities suite are you, by any chance? Because it has a data recovery feature tucked in around the more noticeable antivirus and so on. At least mine does.

kyra_neko_rei

March 11 2009, 03:02:36 UTC 8 years ago Edited:  March 11 2009, 03:02:48 UTC

Eeeeep! That sucks metric fucktons of fragrant burrito-enhanced diarrhea from the unwashed sphincters of a thousand day-old corpses.

Wishing you the best of luck in the above-suggested retrieval tactics.

azurelunatic

March 11 2009, 04:29:26 UTC 8 years ago

Oh, no, no, no. :(

jerusha

March 11 2009, 04:48:14 UTC 8 years ago

AUGH

annemariewrites

March 11 2009, 05:42:11 UTC 8 years ago

As many others have already commented, I truly hope you're able to recover your file!!

starmalachite

March 11 2009, 05:59:19 UTC 8 years ago

Oh, NO. Sending good mojo for retrieval attempts.

bardling

March 11 2009, 07:59:19 UTC 8 years ago

Aieeeee. :(((((((((

*hugs*

dr_zrfq

March 11 2009, 15:51:28 UTC 8 years ago

OUCH.

***hugs***

Sending you lots of good data-recovery vibes.

dornbeast

March 11 2009, 16:17:14 UTC 8 years ago

I'm just happy that you're smarter than I am.

("Backups? What backups?" I said. And my brother wanted to do what my icon is doing.)
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