I'm sorry to hear that. If you want to email me the file, I can see if there's any way to recover it. It may be that the font isn't there any more or the header got corrupted or something crazy like that. I can look at the actual binary contents and see if there's anything there. The fact that the characters seem to still be there, but just appear as spaces is actually a good sign.
And it still shows all the stats. It's says it's a little over 184k words, a little over 2500 lines...I mean, it's absolutely confusing. I did everything I could think of to recover it.
Seriously? It might be possible to recover it? *glomps* If it is, you have my undying gratitude and love and loyalty FOREVER. Unfortunately, I'm at work at the moment. I'll email it once I get home. THANK YOU!
p.s. not an idiot. I can't name a single person that hasn't accidentally overwritten something important and irreplaceable. Things happen especially when computers start to malfunction.
And yeah, I AM a compulsive saver. I save practically after every other sentence. Sometimes after every other WORD. Because I've had too many docs lost from not saving enough. So yeah, it was instinct. A day after the fact, I can look at what happened with a (slightly) calmer head and see that. Something was wrong so I saved.
*hugs* Thanks. And I CAN rebuild the list, to a degree anyway. At least with the most active fic I'm reading, so it's not a complete loss. Even found a new fic to add to the list, but it's gonna be posted so regularly (the author gave a schedule), I don't think I'll add it to the list.
While I still really kind of hate myself for that incident, I've been re-writing it and it's come out rather better, in my opinion. (In some ways. In others, it's severely lacking. But I suppose that's how it goes.)
Me too, now! Calm head is a good thing.
No prob ^_^ Yay for being able to rebuild! (Somewhat!)
...I should probably start posting old fics... I just never update, so my readers, I think, would be rather... inflamed.
Rewrites do tend to come out better. I've noticed that with the few things I've had to rewrite for various reasons.
*nods* Yeah, I'm getting that.
Yeah, yays.
Yeah. I know how that is. My Atlantis series is kinda dead in the water. I've also got another series in another fandom (Final Fantasy) that I should finish. That's not even considering the new series I half-started.
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And yeah, I AM a compulsive saver. I save practically after every other sentence. Sometimes after every other WORD. Because I've had too many docs lost from not saving enough. So yeah, it was instinct. A day after the fact, I can look at what happened with a (slightly) calmer head and see that. Something was wrong so I saved.
*hugs* Thanks. And I CAN rebuild the list, to a degree anyway. At least with the most active fic I'm reading, so it's not a complete loss. Even found a new fic to add to the list, but it's gonna be posted so regularly (the author gave a schedule), I don't think I'll add it to the list.
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Me too, now!
Calm head is a good thing.
No prob ^_^
Yay for being able to rebuild! (Somewhat!)
...I should probably start posting old fics... I just never update, so my readers, I think, would be rather... inflamed.
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*nods* Yeah, I'm getting that.
Yeah, yays.
Yeah. I know how that is. My Atlantis series is kinda dead in the water. I've also got another series in another fandom (Final Fantasy) that I should finish. That's not even considering the new series I half-started.
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