#and i've still no idea why the file was empty. the writing history tab doesn't show any recent days with a large negative word count | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

mellowthorn · 3 months ago

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the absolute horror of going to edit one little thing in a fully drafted chapter only to find the file completely blank. and then discovering that none of the 5(!!!!) backups have the contents either???

thankfully dropbox has a file-specific version history so after five minutes of panicking i managed to restore it through that, but dear lord. that was scary.

#personal post #writing #i went through all the stages of grief in the span of five very long minutes #it's a big chapter too and the outline was included in the same file so yeah. would've really sucked to have to write it from scratch #and i've still no idea why the file was empty. the writing history tab doesn't show any recent days with a large negative word count #(as it should if i had erased it myself)#but this has never happened before in my 13+ years of using scrivener so uhh. wtf. (also im going to redo my backup system immediately)

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