CircePonyDemigoddess Posted December 12, 2011 Report Share Posted December 12, 2011 I just now remembered that since my mom's computer died, all my fanfic WIPs are gone. I had more than one for other fandoms, but my most prized one was a MLP fanfic I was typing in the theme of Nightmare Night. It was the best work I had done literature-wise in years, and I can't get it back. I would re-type it, but it just wouldn't be the same if I couldn't get the words exactly right. All that effort for nothing...all because of a glitchy computer. *said in a Davy Jones-esque way* Damn you, Hewlett...PACKAAAARD!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyLittlePonyTales Posted December 12, 2011 Report Share Posted December 12, 2011 GoogleDocs is your friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daftBLUE Posted December 12, 2011 Report Share Posted December 12, 2011 Your computer crashed? Your fics are gone? This is too much for us to take. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astalakio Posted December 12, 2011 Report Share Posted December 12, 2011 Oh noes And I thought it was bad when your browser crashes in the middle of typing a RP post... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daftBLUE Posted December 12, 2011 Report Share Posted December 12, 2011 Mine does that a lot of the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowshoe Posted December 12, 2011 Report Share Posted December 12, 2011 Define died. If your hard-drive is still good, you can pull it and recover your fanfics easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Autumn Posted December 12, 2011 Report Share Posted December 12, 2011 You'd have to be off your trolley to not have used one of the kajillion free cloud-storage solutions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Han Valen Posted December 12, 2011 Report Share Posted December 12, 2011 Agreed with SturmmannMy old laptop 'died' last year but I was able to take it to a local tech guy and he burned all of my files from the hard drive, including music and pictures, onto DVD-Rs so I could rip them to my new computer.Plus, you should get like a cheap 1 Gig flashdrive for the future, just to put essential documents and other files onto it, and update it regularly. You never know when even a brand new computer will just decide to derp for no reason or catch a virus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acynder Posted December 12, 2011 Report Share Posted December 12, 2011 Your fics are gone.Well....that's...really troubling sir. Excuse me.*Leaves topic**Cheers jumping up and down**Comes back in*Yea really tragic. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowshoe Posted December 12, 2011 Report Share Posted December 12, 2011 You'd have to be off your trolley to not have used one of the kajillion free cloud-storage solutions.TBH, I don't trust cloud-storage for a whole lot of things. I have a terabyte HD I use for most of my files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirby Krackle Posted December 13, 2011 Report Share Posted December 13, 2011 Sorry to hear that. It's happened to me, with videos mostly. And vast collection images. Have you no stick drives though? Perhaps you e-mailed yourself betas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackFang Posted December 13, 2011 Report Share Posted December 13, 2011 heh, who told you to buy HP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashton Posted December 13, 2011 Report Share Posted December 13, 2011 I just now remembered that since my mom's computer died, all my fanfic WIPs are gone. I had more than one for other fandoms, but my most prized one was a MLP fanfic I was typing in the theme of Nightmare Night. It was the best work I had done literature-wise in years, and I can't get it back. I would re-type it, but it just wouldn't be the same if I couldn't get the words exactly right. All that effort for nothing...all because of a glitchy computer. *said in a Davy Jones-esque way* Damn you, Hewlett...PACKAAAARD!!!If the HDD itself isnt damaged you can recover them. You just need an "External HDD case" so you can access the drive over USB.GoogleDocs is your friend. I'm a fan of DropBox myself, though I'm playing with Ubuntu One too... There's also Skydrive (MS)And those are just the ones I know of off the top of my head...TBH, I don't trust cloud-storage for a whole lot of things. I have a terabyte HD I use for most of my files.Never use cloud as primary storage, but always use it as a backup for things you REALLY dont want to lose (and some, like Dropbox not only let you back up, but sync them across numerous PCs/smartphones/etc) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S008 Posted December 13, 2011 Report Share Posted December 13, 2011 On the positive side, you have not lost the practice it took to write the fics. A Captain Obvious reply, but true.I use an external HDD myself - if one of the HDDs fails, I just make another copy from the one in working condition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armony Posted December 14, 2011 Report Share Posted December 14, 2011 Define died. If your hard-drive is still good, you can pull it and recover your fanfics easy.This is exactly what I was thinking. I've done this with a few computers that had bad power supplies, and saved a quite a few headaches for people who thought they'd lost all of their everything.Oh noes And I thought it was bad when your browser crashes in the middle of typing a RP post...Which is why I write all of my RP posts (or any long posts in general) in Notepad and copy/paste them into my browser after proofreading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astalakio Posted December 14, 2011 Report Share Posted December 14, 2011 This is exactly what I was thinking. I've done this with a few computers that had bad power supplies, and saved a quite a few headaches for people who thought they'd lost all of their everything.Which is why I write all of my RP posts (or any long posts in general) in Notepad and copy/paste them into my browser after proofreading. I used to do that. But I decided it was much more of a thrill to live life on the edge, know what I'm sayin'? *puts shades on and lies on a cloud* 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Han Valen Posted December 14, 2011 Report Share Posted December 14, 2011 I used to do that. But I decided it was much more of a thrill to live life on the edge, know what I'm sayin'? *puts shades on and lies on a cloud* 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parker_Izing Posted December 15, 2011 Report Share Posted December 15, 2011 The only time I had a lost of data was in 1998, from then I just keep 2 or 3 redundant copies of anything (collected on old hard drives as original, and those backed up on newer external units) It's kinda lame owning 8 TB of data and just 1 TB of actual disk space, but I can say I still keep stuff like radio programs before the word podcast event existed. Or that weird screen saver I got on a pentium 2 from 1999 with flying toasters.Anyways, I want to say I'm sorry with your lost, or lose, or loose... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircePonyDemigoddess Posted December 27, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2011 Thanks for all your guys' concern. It makes me feel tons better. ^^ Btw, sorry for being gone for so long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weesh Posted December 28, 2011 Report Share Posted December 28, 2011 I would re-type it, but it just wouldn't be the sameYou are right, it wouldn't be the same; it would be better. Rewriting is better than revising. And the more often the better. If you want a good story, you need to write a lot of stories. If you rewrite it, don't try to remember it exactly, that would be wasting your time. Start with a favorite passage, and go from there. Then do it again. Then do it again. You have lost work, but you cannot lose the experience you gained in writing that work. You may find that this experience makes you a better writer overall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TenthSpeedWriter Posted December 28, 2011 Report Share Posted December 28, 2011 You know, unless it was hard drive failure specifically, or you've already reformatted it, it would still be quite easy to get the data back off of it. (Even if you have, there are professional services that could probably pull it back from the drive itself.)You should shoot me a PM with the specifics. *I earn my wages fixing computers, and I'm certain that whatever's happened to it, it can't be more horrific than what your average college computer lab user does on a daily basis. : P*Edit: Not threatening to charge you, or anything. o-o I'll do it to save the fics! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheColtofPersonality Posted January 5, 2012 Report Share Posted January 5, 2012 heh, who told you to buy HP Actually HP usually makes some good computers, note the word usually.I would certainly rank them higher then Gateway, or Emachines but at current rate lower then Dell (seriously Dell where the heck was this quality last time I owned a Dell!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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