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I have been waking early recently, like about 4 or half past.
This has vaguely helped my writing, or so I thought, because I could do a lot whilst the gentle snores emanate from the other room.
Today, I was distracted, and brain was engaged in how to get Julina out of a scrape. I was tidying up my libraries and generally reducing the 2 GB of stuff I have stored for the J o B series.
I just deleted all of #28 of Julina's tales. This was due to be posted this weekend.
Will now have to rewrite it all.
Poo.
J.
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Owies
I deleted a chapter recently in the very same painful manner, and it wasn't the first time. Then I actually cried for over an hour. My sympathies!
Love, Andrea Lena
"Recycling Bin"?
Not sure which OS you are using, but the file might actually still be left in the "Recycling Bin" or "Trash Can" or whatever analogue your computer uses. If it is, you should probably be able to retrieve it from there pretty easily.
Unless, of course, you cleared that folder before realizing what you'd done, in which case, yeah, you've got some rewriting to do...
You might want to look for a
You might want to look for a file recovery program. That might recover some if not all of the deleted file.
Poo???
Sorry to hear about that.
Whenever you post the next chapter (once you get over your disgust at doing what so many of us have done - lost an entire book that way when my automated backup didn't function correctly and I then cleaned up my hard drive not knowing that the book had been lost). Whenever you are able to re-write and post, I shall be there waiting to read it.
Thank you
Anesidora
Did the file actually get
Did the file actually get deleted? It may still be in the recycle bin; it's there to prevent these mistakes from being unrecoverable.
Even if it did actually get deleted all that does is mark the data location as not in use in the file system. If the computer hasn't yet written over the location the file will still be there and can be accessed using data recovery software. Because that data is not currently being used by the file system you'll have to search for it by name because there's no longer anything pointing it to the folder it was in.
Slapped wrist because of poo
What I do is take my work in progress, say it's number 41, and I save it as number 42. This keeps all the formatting the same and so on.
I then delete the now duplicated 41 parts in 42 and start with 42 proper.
I dumped the equivalent of 41 from BOTH 41 and 42 because I wasn't paying attention. About a week ago.
I continued with 42, getting it to final polish stage and then decided to get 41 ready for posting.
Imagine my chagrin when I discovered this very morning that number 41 was empty!
And my auto-clean-up had been run 7 times (estimated) since I screwed up.
And it had been discarded in my tidying up.
Silly dumbo that I am!
J
Slapped wrist
I know the feeling. Any idea how many times I deleted something which should not be deleted with Shift-Del or was quickly shutting down my applications to catch a train or bus and clicked 1 time to fast on the discard button, or moved (a part of) the OS-maps to another location, or started a low level format on the wrong drive or ...
Yours, Leontine
Application
What are you using as your word processing progarm?
DJ
Been there done that
Still have the egg on my face. It will be a bit of effort to recover, but I have found that when something like this happens the universe becomes my editor, so I accept it as a Zen moment of accidental [de]-creation which opened the way for a better creation. When I rewrote the lost part/s [ yes I did this more than once du] I discovered the work was improved from the process.
Art is such a mysterious thing I just have to laugh at my self and accept that fingers sometimes do things I didn't want them to do but It was always the best thing for the story.
Huggles
Michele
With those with open eyes the world reads like a book
Or be just like me
I rarely delete stuff from my hard drive. Hard drives are so stupendously cheap these days I just save multiple instances of the same file, with name changes eg foo_reva.docx, foo_revb.docx etc. Neatness is so overrated.
An alternative is to run your own subversion (SVN) server so you can check in changes as much as you want. Just don't delete the file repository on the server. Software engineers use it all the time and at any given time there is only one copy of the file, along with any differences in the versions, resident on the hard drive.