1. HeathBar

    HeathBar Active Member

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    What happened to my edits?

    Discussion in 'Writing Software and Hardware' started by HeathBar, Sep 16, 2019.

    Anyone experienced vanishing edits in Word? I emailed my MS to my Kindle and opened it to check it, and realized it wasn't the current version. I went back to my current version and the edits were gone from the first page. And only the first page (as far as I can tell). There are edits saved that I made as recently as yesterday. But the ones on the first page that I made, and reread, and revised, and saved, and closed, and saved, and closed, and opened again are gone. The only thing I can think of is that I somehow rejected the tracked changes on that page and didn't realize it. Luckily, I had just gone chapter-by-chapter to get an updated word count for each, so I think (hope) that the lost changes are limited to the ones missing from the first page. And, luckily, I had reread and revised that section enough that I could easily fix it. But..........I'll admit I cried for a minute thinking my document was corrupted. The file is big (933 KB), ~103,000 words, but that shouldn't be so big to be unstable. Again, all I can think is that I inadvertently rejected tracked changes. Yikes. I've now copied and saved the current draft to seven different places.
     
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    Shenanigator Has the Vocabulary of a Well-Educated Sailor. Contributor

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    Yes...Not so much vanished, but edits that either didn't save, or that didn't save to OneDrive but saved to the hard drive instead.

    Are you using OneDrive to upload your files to the Cloud? That's when I have the most trouble. OneDrive can be very inconsistent. To circumvent this, I do a manual save to a thumbdrive as a backup. That works just fine.

    I've also noticed the "autosave" button occasionally turns itself off or on.

    I never trust the automatic saves, ever (but that's been my SOP forever, because a power outage at the wrong time can miss saving an edit). Still, overall, I've had far fewer problems with Word than some of my friends have has with Scriv or Google Drive, and Word is standard program used used in my work life, so...Word it is.
     
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    Cave Troll It's Coffee O'clock everywhere. Contributor

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    I keep things close to the chest at all times, and save at least three times
    just to make sure what ever I have done is most likely in the file.
    Don't use none of those fancy 'cloud' apps, and don't trust them neither.
     
  4. HeathBar

    HeathBar Active Member

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    Nope, just saved them to my hard drive. The changes were saved -- and they were saved for weeks. I must have rejected them somehow in tracked changes. It's the only thing that makes sense. I searched all hard drive docs for a couple of unique words that were in the edited version, but nothing.
     
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  5. HeathBar

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    Love this. :)
     
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    HeathBar Active Member

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    Now I’m laughing at the irony that the edits included a reference to St. Jude, the patron saint of lost causes.
     
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    Catrin Lewis Contributor Contributor Contest Winner 2023 Community Volunteer

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    My sympathies. My computer lost the last 6,000 words of last year's NaNoWriMo effort. I'm still putting off reconstructing them.
     
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    So frustrating! Good luck reconstructing. 6000 words is a lot to lose. :(
     
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