Stormonu
NeoGrognard
I've done Castle Ravenloft in minecraft twice to have my machine crap out on me and lose it. Each time it was about 2 weeks worth of work, and even despite backing it up, I still lost it.
Back in the '90s, my wife was working on her research paper for college on a Mac (OS 6, as I recall). I don't remember rightly why - I think it had something to do with getting Microsoft Word onto the machine - we upgraded it to OS 7 and found a horrific flaw. If you shut the PC off instead of putting it to sleep, it no longer could access the hard drive! Bye bye research paper. Luckily, she prints all her draft copies, so I (as it was my mistake) got to type it back into the Mac for her the morning before she had to turn it in.
Thankfully, I've learned over the years to triple back-up my documents. I've lost documents to computer crashes, floppies/CDs/flashdrives going bad and have even lost a flash drive full of 20 years of storywriting at an airport security check - luckily in each case, I've had a backup - even if it was a revision or two old.
Back in the '90s, my wife was working on her research paper for college on a Mac (OS 6, as I recall). I don't remember rightly why - I think it had something to do with getting Microsoft Word onto the machine - we upgraded it to OS 7 and found a horrific flaw. If you shut the PC off instead of putting it to sleep, it no longer could access the hard drive! Bye bye research paper. Luckily, she prints all her draft copies, so I (as it was my mistake) got to type it back into the Mac for her the morning before she had to turn it in.
Thankfully, I've learned over the years to triple back-up my documents. I've lost documents to computer crashes, floppies/CDs/flashdrives going bad and have even lost a flash drive full of 20 years of storywriting at an airport security check - luckily in each case, I've had a backup - even if it was a revision or two old.
