Omfg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ginguar]

My computer once turned the 2,000 word essay I had just finished into squares. I could have happily killed myself at that point.

[Cheese]

Hmmph....and everyone shits on Microsoft products.

Are you a Bill Gates fan-boy?

[Cheese]

My computer once turned the 2,000 word essay I had just finished into squares. I could have happily killed myself at that point.

Did you not manage to get that sorted?

[bigboab]

I'm afraid with some applications its just one of those things. It is on your computer somewhere. Finding it is the big problem. I dont know that particular application so I am unable to help you. Check your *.tmp files and things like that. Sometimes applications and operating systems save when the computer crashes. Try and open a document with the application and see if it shows a 'temp' type doc. Also check 'your recent documents'.

[ginguar]

Did you not manage to get that sorted?

Yeah I pretended I was really ill to get extenuating circumstances then re-wrote the essay from notes and stuff.

[TheDave]

me being a paranoid loon saves after every sentance, sometimes

[Snee]

I once opened an essay in the wrong text editor without noticing, and got a chopped up mess instead of my essay.

Took me fifteen minutes to figure out that I'd opened it in the wrong program and that it hadn't actually been scrambled. It was very late then, and I had three hours to sleep/rewrite it before it had to be turned in.

I was ready to kill someone for a while then.

Another time I had a crash and thought I'd lost seven hours of work I had been writing, and had forgotten to save.

The weird thing is that after my reboot, when I opened up word, and the one paragraph I had managed to save, it started to fill in the rest of the document, letter by letter as if someone else was writing it.

Some kind of flukked up memory leak saved me, somehow the ram hadn't dumped what I had running on my desktoop when I rebooted, all kinds of things resumed as if I'd never rebooted. I almost found religion right then and there.

I've also had a couple of these incidents where I ended up writing something better than before, thanks to having to start again, but with my previous work in mind.

So it's been my experience that things aren't as bad as one thinks when these things happen. I still save as often as I can remember when I remember to do so, tho'.

[Skiz]

The autosave only works when the computer is unplugged or the power goes out type of thing. If the pc freezes, your just screwed. Sorry, I know it sucks, I've been there too.

[Spicker]

lol k i did it over again...and now doing todays history homework...

i have to find a Defining Moment and i decided to pick the Canadian Charter of Rights and freedoms

btw this is Canadian history

and this time i will save after every word or sentance

good to hear im not the only one whose been through this kind of thing....

[exo_body]

would it not work, say if your computer froze, then you simply turn it off at the switch, then turn it back on again and microsoft word gives you the option to access the unsaved document?