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03-08-2001, 12:28 AM
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Ma'at - Goddess of Truth & Justice
 Join Date: March 1, 2001
Location: Delaware OH USA
Age: 48
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Yeah, so I was just getting the finishing touches on the next two chapter, so I decided to check in here. Well, does anyone know what I mean by the MicroSoft Blue Screen of Death? Yeah. And of course, me being the Knowledgeable, smart, Digital Age, man of the 21st century, I hadn't saved yet. Gone. 7 hours. Most of it is still banging around in my head, but right now, I just want to destroy a certain computer, so I am just going to post this little message, quietly walk out of the lab, and jump out the window. Ok, maybe not. But I am really frustrated with myself and I really don't need to be around computers for the rest of the night, so just wanted to let those of you who care know where I am and why I'm not posting anything tonight.
Later, BK |
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03-08-2001, 12:31 AM
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Just to let you know ! "I know your PAIN man"
been there DONE THAT!!!!   ------------------  Walk lightly my friend. [This message has been edited by sirgwayne (edited 03-08-2001).] |
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03-08-2001, 01:22 AM
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Ironworks Moderator
 Join Date: March 1, 2001
Location: Upstate NY USA
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BAD BAD computer( Cloudbringer Whaps the nasty ol' computer with a rolled up newspaper)That's awful, BK. You need your librarian-archivist.  CloudLibrarian ------------------  Storm-QueenStormCloud of the Black Knight |
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03-08-2001, 01:28 AM
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Symbol of Cyric
 Join Date: March 1, 2001
Location: Portland, OR USA
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Awww, I'm sorry that happened to you, BK! Unfortunately I'm very familiar with the BSOD... Used to have a sign on my 'puter that said, "Save It!" Didn't help much though! Had to learn my lesson the hard way like you did (when I was doing desktop publishing, MS's Publisher auto-saves every ten minutes... Saved my bacon a few times!) Anyhow, you might snoop around the tmp files... (do a text search for unique key words from the story). Most write-apps do a temp file of some sort for just this kind of situation... Good luck!
If you get hits from your search, back em up and try changing the extension from .tmp or whatever) to .doc, .rtf, or .txt. Again, good luck! ------------------ 
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03-08-2001, 03:00 AM
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Bastet - Egyptian Cat Goddess
 Join Date: March 1, 2001
Location: Sweden
Age: 51
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CHANT WITH ME! BLUE SCREEN OF DEAtH, BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH! AlL HAIL TO THE BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH!
Man, I do know that feeling, one of my Desktop Publisher teacher told us al valuable lesson once,; always keep two copies, nd save, sae, save, save, save, save, save, regulary! And yes, save very often, so you don´t forget to save..  Well a bit naggy perhaps, but he got the message through our thick headds after awhile, not that he needed to say anything, all thoose dark hours without sleep trying to catch up on lost material was enough.. Check the autsoave, tmp files, and rtf´s as mention above..And hey! I´m very sorry! I hope you will find it! ------------------  ::HOWLING WOLFGIR THE MAD WOLF:: |
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03-08-2001, 07:11 AM
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Red Dragon
 Join Date: March 1, 2001
Location: Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Seven hours ? That is really a tough break, BK !
I do not know if it is any consolation to you, but in my experience whenever I was forced to rewrite something because of technical problems, after overcoming the frustration, the second version turned out to be significantly better than the first. With that I do not want to suggest that your first version had not already been very good. Keep spoiling us with your tales, please ! ------------------ So long ! R³ - Co-president(s) of the Club of Broken Hearts |
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03-08-2001, 07:36 AM
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Emerald Dragon
 Join Date: March 4, 2001
Location: England
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Man sorry to hear that BK.
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03-08-2001, 07:53 AM
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Banned User
Join Date: March 1, 2001
Location: New Jersey
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BK: That is the worst thing to see, I don't know what program you are using, but I know that word has an auto save option. That has saved me more times than I can count.
Sorry to hear that you have been visited by the nemisis of all that is good. ------------------  Feel My Power |
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03-08-2001, 09:40 AM
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Ma'at - Goddess of Truth & Justice
Join Date: March 1, 2001
Location: Delaware OH USA
Age: 48
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Thanks, all. I usually do know better, but it has been so long since I worked on something that was longer than 4-5 pages that I am just out of practice with the whole save business. I checked the autosave option on the Microsoft Word. Turned off, of course. Grrrrrrrr. Oh well. Hopefully, I can redo it to the same affect. We shall see.
Later, BK |
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03-08-2001, 09:44 AM
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Bastet - Egyptian Cat Goddess
Join Date: March 1, 2001
Location: Sweden
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A small advice, use notepad or wordpad instead. Tehy don´t "die" as often and with wordpad you still can edit your text and it´s faster too..
I don´t use word at all, i hate that program! I set your texts i received in InDesign.. and made a PDF of it.. I hope you will like it when you can see it *damn server!* ------------------ ::HOWLING WOLFGIR THE MAD WOLF:: |
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