I spent six hours Monday working my heart out on a client file, carefully saving every ten minutes or so. Went to open the file yesterday – yes, it’s gone. Nowhere to be found. I searched for it. Nope. Every unedited version is there, but not the one I need. I looked in the Temporary folders – nope. Six hours down the tubes. And it’s now up to me to come up with six hours gratis. No way a client pays for my technological gaffes.
What went wrong? Any geeks out there who care to explain how a file opened from email and saved to gawd-knows-where vanishes the minute you un-hibernate the damned machine? Naturally, I’d not saved it to where my Mozy backup program reaches. Of course not. That, my friends, would be too easy. Argh!
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Oh, I hate it when that happens.
I actually have a backup account, and I’ve started emailing the day’s work to myself.
Remember in spring, when I was five pages away from finishing a screenplay and the whole thing AND the backup (not the emailed one, the other one) vanished?
Nowhere to be found. It got eaten.
We later discovered that Norton Anti-virus sometimes eats documents over 100 pages, so that’s what we figure happened.
Hence, the back-up email account.
Pulling my hair for you. I detest the cyber monkeys!