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onewomancitadel · 9 months ago

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Here is a horror I overcame with fic writing: I actually lost a substantial amount of work (about 1/3rd of a chapter) despite seemingly saving and backing up in two separate areas and the next day rewrote everything essentially from memory (and also better). If at any point my morale were going to be completely compromised I think giving up there would've been sensible.

#as far as I could reconstruct the accident Ctrl+S didn't work because I'm still sometimes unused to this keyboard #my pinky doesn't always reach properly #and I have this neurotic rule that I don't hit the pop-up when closing Word of 'Do you want to save?'#because I don't want to mix saving/quitting and I always manually save instead #so when it did that I just closed it because I was tired/assumed it was something minor #not mixing saving and quitting means that if quitting is interrupted in any way then the saving isn't compromised #it's just a habit I picked up from avoiding corruption in Sims 2 lol #anyway my solution now is that I click the save button instead of keyboard shortcut

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