Lost work!

by Daniel Orpeus
10th July 2013

I don't believe it.... But I just lost all my work. A Virus ruined my laptop drives.... Any one else ever had the same thing occur ? :/

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Well, I'm going to have to start over, I will be investing in a nice shiny new external hard drive to store my works on

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10/07/2013

That's a real pain :(

I had an 'iffy' machine once so used to save completed chapters to a CD and have carried on ever since. Have you ever backed your laptop up to disk? I know some writers email copies to themselves or family so their work's held on a remote mail server in case of accidents.

You have to save stuff - a pen drive is cheap enough and works well if you don't trust disks.

Commiserations.

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