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| Saving the story... |
There was near disaster when I discovered that one of the memory sticks lost the first three chapters of my second draft of my Nottinghamshire story. It was on the memory stick, then the next time I plugged it in, it was gone.
A writer friend suggested I download a retrieval programme and see if it could find it. Sadly it was gone forever.
Fortunately I print out the completed chapters as I go along, so I haven't lost all that work I did earlier in the year.
But it will mean retyping it into a new document. :(
So I better go and get on with it... :-)
Have you ever lost work due to digital mishaps?
There was a programme on TV this morning - Fake Britain - where they exposed the fake memory stick trade. It pays to buy from a High Street shop!
ReplyDeleteYes, I saw that too Lizy. I always buy mine from a reliable source.
DeleteThe sticks that failed were the older one-less likely to work with the newer generation ports I suspect.
Oh, now you're scaring me, Carol! Thanks for mentioning this - will make sure I have more than one back-up source.
ReplyDeleteI'd not considered there could be a problem Rosemary, until I realised one of the sticks wasn't recognised, and then couldn't be opened.
DeleteI've not bought a portable hard drive so I have three different methods of document saving for my fiction.