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a very interesting challenge. Did you have and process for making sure your work wasn't lost in progress? I once felt particularly inspired, and wrote 20,000 w
by ntw1103 7y ago
a very interesting challenge.
Did you have and process for making sure your work wasn't lost in progress?
I once felt particularly inspired, and wrote 20,000 words in a day, I had been hitting ctrl+s all day, and after reaching a good stopping point, I hit it once more. Then I heard the Seagate click of death, 20' words gone in an instant.
I thought I was doing well for backups, my laptop was scheduled to do a diff backup with my server, and other computers ad midnight. This had saved me in the past, But not this time.
I still have yet to try re-writing what was lost that day, despite authoring other works. It is too disheartening.
- amayne 7y agoYikes! I used Google Recorder which creates a real-time transcription and an audio file. After each chapter I'd back them up to Google Drive. For my normal writing, I use Scrivener which is autosaved to Dropbox.
- ntw1103 7y agoI'm glad you were safe from my type of disaster. Dropbox or Nextcloud are amazing for their instant backup ability. My loss happened about a year before Dropbox launched. Thanks for sharing. :)