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[CWStudio]

I lost 16 hours of work yesterday, I spent all day working on Pixling sprite for my game, Save the file shut down to take a break, play with the dogs feed the cat watch a movie, things away from my screen. come back turn on my computer, It was all gone, nothing had saved. I did every possible recovery imaginable, the best I can guess is when I saved last night I hit cancel instead of save on accident, because saving has become so automatic I didn't read the popup just hit ok automatically instead of taking the time to read it.

Lesson is

Pay attetion


Any lessons you've learned in working?

 

[Mysiath]

I'm not sure. I've had that save issue happened before too and it frustrated me as hell, but nothing as bad as losing 16 hours or so work.

Another issue that I have is forgetting to turn off the touch pad on my laptop off whenever I write. It's extremely sensitive or something and sometimes whenever I write and I even glide over the touch pad it then clicks wherever my cursor is pointed and that always is somewhere else in the middle of a paragraph and then I curse when I notice that I'm writing into somewhere in the middle of a paragraph. Or, having clicked outside the document and then just. It's not much of a issue, but it's frustrating slightly. Sometimes it moves to the corner and lets me peek at my desktop, sometimes I click the dangerous red X and the save pop's open.

I don't know if I've done something as extreme as yours though. I can't honestly remember anything like that. I hope I haven't, lol.

 

[Cunechan]

Ohhhh you pooooor D: Pixel art is so tiring and exhausting and it takes an eternity to get anything done, now its gone...
I lost pictures and sprites a few times due to such mistakes and now I save everything twice and have a backup folder

 

[Dad3353]

Yes, commiserations on your loss. Too late for this time, but if it helps... When I'm working on advancing a Project, or composing, or... well, anything at all, really, I will make successive, 'versioned' saves (Project _01, _02, _03 etc...) until it's finished. If it's anything really important, I'll even save it twice, to different disks (my stockage is USB drives, not the internal hard disk...). I learned this the hard way, as do we all, during a long career in IT. It takes little time, but quite a lot of self-discipline, which pays its dividend in exactly the circumstances you describe. 16 hours without an independent 'save'..? Not for me; once bitten, twice shy. Just sayin', hope this helps for next time (yes, there is always a 'next time'..!

)

 

[Companion Wulf]

Spent a week on creating a game in VX. It had a lot of custom scripts I'd done. Transferred it to the new computer and loaded it up. The scripts became corrupted making it unplayable. Lesson learned: backup even the scripts.

 

[Juneberry]

This brings back the nightmare that is last year's NaNoWriMo for me. I went to a "Write In" (a gathering of writers IRL because we're weirdos that do this just to sit at our computers in one room)...I'd written over a thousand words of manuscript. I opened the document after having saved it, sitting in the room...And more than half of my manuscript was gone! And this didn't just happen once. This happened /every/ time I opened the document after saving. It always ate a majority of my work...And thus I learned writing with what once was the best program ever for me to write in offline was no longer an option. Now I do all my manuscripts in Google Docs. ;-;

That said, it happened when I was a teenager too in school. I had to write a ten page short story within a day because every day I would go to work on it at school, the Mac ate my files off my data key from home -.-

Can I hug you in condolence for the time and tears you put into that? D:

 

[Mr.Gaming]

@CWStudio

That what you've written is a thing similar to the Happened to me a few months ago.

I worked on my Project, then I stopped for the day, I defragment my my hard drive because my Computer or better Laptop worked damn slow. When I wanted to work next day everything was gone except for the Standard MV games Folder. Four months and hundreds of hours were gone.

I have searched my entire four terabytes, but it was no longer there. Of course I knew it could be nowhere else.

But better once more often looking than once to less. Since the Projkt is saved in my cloud as a backup.

 

[CWStudio]

thanks for the support guys ^^ I feel horrible you all have lost work to but I feel less stupid having lost my own knowing it's happened to so many people.

I started a few of them over yesterday then took a break, I'll finish up today and post what I have if I think about it to share what I have done :)