OK, who took my file and didn’t put it back?
Cats: words|Because it’s no where to be found on my computer.
And that’s were I write ‘em and file ‘em away – on my computer. And I only have one computer.
So come on, people. Fess up. Now. Who took it?
It was a column – about 600 words worth. I wrote it last week and filed it away while I attended to other projects.
The plan was to open it up again today, polish it up and file it to my editor.
But when I looked in my file, it was nowhere to be seen.
Google desktop didn’t produce it, even with refined searches with exact words and dates.
My desktop search just shrugged its shoulders. There’s nothing in my extensive backup system.
No idea.
It’s like the thing vanished into thin air.
My computer’s fine.
There comes time when searching becomes self defeating and time-wasting.
So I’ve just written the thing again.
But still….
April 14th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Ugh. That’s got to be maddening.
April 14th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
That’s the kind of thing that sends me over the edge.
April 14th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
It was me. Sorry, I had writer’s block. My editor was really happy with it, too!
I hope the rewrite was even better than the original.
April 14th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
Bubs, double ugh, but skipped the madness and just did resignation
CP, I resigned to it to save myself the energy of going over the edge.
BB, I knew it. I bloody well knew you had something to do with this.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
Oh crap, that’s gotta be the worst. That happened to me with a very large work project and I learned my lesson the very hard way. I immediately went out and bought one of those sticks to save work at the end of my sessions.
Are those “sticks” called jump drives or what is the proper term for them, I’ve heard many versions??
April 14th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
YAM, I call them usb sticks.
Weird thing is that I have two auto back-up systems, one to an external drive and other to a server – admittedly the server was down due to a power cut, but this thing didn’t back up anywhere, whereas everything else did.
IT’s ghost like
April 14th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
Oh, that is the worst. I’ve been mired in technical difficulties lately, but at least I haven’t lost an entire piece of work.
April 15th, 2009 at 12:54 am
I took it and I’m not giving it back.
April 15th, 2009 at 11:50 am
Don’t forget to post how silly you felt when you finally found it…right where you put it.
April 16th, 2009 at 1:31 am
You seem amazingly calm. No overturned chairs or broken tea cups?
I’d be a whirling dervish.
April 16th, 2009 at 11:07 am
“Who took it?”
Obviously the people who made “Monsters Vs. Aliens” and you better give them a favorable review or….
April 16th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
GT you are so cool it’s almost too much to bear! I wonder when you find it if there will be a type of post-traumatic response?!
April 17th, 2009 at 11:51 am
Looks like it may have killed GT’s will to blog, or type, or whatever. Really what’s the point, if it’s just going to vanish anyway?
April 20th, 2009 at 8:43 am
cdp, only 600 words lost and it was still on the hard disc that sits on my shoulders
Monkey, I knew it. Give it back
Dick, only I never did find it.
Cormac, that actually occurred to me as that post had many hits from people prowling google for that movie.
Tonardo, the response, if i find it, will be dry laughter a la Martin Amis
Dick, I ask myself that on occasion