She is not happy.
Jane's wp program just crashed and took all her editing notes with it.
by CJ | Jun 26, 2012 | Journal | 9 comments
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I’ll bet not! Here’s hoping she can recover it all — soon.
THank goodness—WordPerfect has a user-set interval of backup, and it HAD just backed up. We think possibly WP was doing that operation when she did a set of backup of text-moves, which can be a bit of a nest of snakes, involving the Undo function, the Move, the Select/SelectEnd and the Reformat/Justification, and if it did coincide with a save on a meg-sized file, strange hiccups can occur—but at least the program prioritized the backup-the-current-file function. It just gives you a heart attack.
Thank Goodness! I’ve lost work that way before and it is a maddening thing. So glad this one is a happy ending.
*gives Jane a big E-hug*
I have my autobackup to an external drive and to a backup copy on my hard drive set to a very short time interval — like every 5 minutes — for exactly that reason — I had a hard drive crash on me and lost three months’ worth of work in the blink of an eye. Talk about weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth. . !
I recommend that Jane take a moment to go to her bedroom get a pillow off her bed and whallop it repeatedly, forcefully and with feeling against the mattress. It vents the anger and outrage safely and harmlessly, uses up all that excess adrenaline, satisfies the need to pummel something, and fluffs up your pillows, all at the same time. Cursing aloud while whalloping is optional.
Nooooooooooooooooooooo………!!!!
I’m glad things worked out better for Jane than anticipated. — I like WOL’s pillow suggestion. I’d suggest practicing invective in as many languages as she can manage. Call it, ah, creative oratory! Extemporaneous diction!
Most regrettable. One earnestly recommends the consideration of a Macintosh, nadiin-ji.
Now and again we think about it, but we’ve got so much invested in computers whose guts we can get at, rip out, curse, and reinstall, it just never happens.
It was perhaps easier to be an early adopter in 1985 and never look back. 😉
Seriously though, it’s even possible to source a decent older one on eBay for $300 or less. You could try it out. The worst that could happen is you’d stick with what you’ve got and give the iMac to a school or something.
The atevi would find Mac software to be quite kabiu, I think.
(One would, offline, advise on eBay purchases with alacrity. Even if one were asked a year from now.)