When when we learn?

[erastes]

ETA: Thanks to Chris Smith, I now have all the words back. The last 15 pages need major reconstructive surgery in formatting but the WORDS are there. Thanks Chris and thanks you everyone!

Backups!  I know that i SHOULD back up and I see the horror stories of authors who don’t and then I don’t take any notice. I just tried to open the file of I Knew Him and… nothing. The file has been corrupted. I opened the backup copy and that’s showing as a week old.

ARGH.

Luckily, in Word 2007 there’s a text converter option, and although there’s a fuck load of gobblegook on the screen, most of what I’ve written over the last week is there. HOWEVER – as I haven’t been able to activate my copy of Word 2007, I can’t save it,can’t select the text, copy the text, or anything.  All I can do is hope that I can save to Windows Live whatever that is. But first I’ll re-run the installation of Word 1997 and see if that helps. Fuck fuck fuck. This has never happened to me before, not this bad. And its my stupid fault.

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