ack!

...I just erased my entire dS fic of twenty-fucking-five thousand words and panicked. I hit undo so it came back (oh my God, I am serious, I do not need this), but I have no idea how it did that--one second, I was typing Wh and the next, everything pauses, highlights, and vanishes. I am officially afraid of googledocs.

*still breathing hard*

Comments

[kernezelda]

Holy cow! *shares panic--omg-relief-but-how!!-response*

[seperis.livejournal.com]

I DO NOT EVEN KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. But yes, two copies now in teh folder and I still have one in Word at home. My hands were shaking.

[reginagiraffe]

BACKUP!

[seperis.livejournal.com]

Yep. Two copies in here now. I have one at home, but I was updating this one for posting, so--you know. Still erratic breathing.

[reginagiraffe]

*pets you*

[torra.livejournal.com]

G!Docs loves to make you panic, but it always keeps a history. If you go into the document, and under "Tools" there's "Revision History". That keeps a copy of every change you make to your documents, including the entire document itself.

Trust me, this is a good feature. It's staved off many panic attacks for me durring the various G!Docs upgrades in the middle of the night.

[tygress.livejournal.com]

Seconded. I've done this when working on RP logs with people, and either Firefox lags up or I forgot I had it open when I closed the windows, and it reopens an old version. Revision history is FABULOUS for that sort of thing. Actually, Google Docs in general is just pretty fabulous. :D

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

Do you have a touchpad? I have this horrible habit of letting my wrists drag on touchpads, and then my word processor is all selecting without my say-so.

I believe Google Docs saves several edits back, like Wikipedia, and can restore a document to how it was before an edit. Which might come in handy.

[transtempts.livejournal.com]

*deep breaths*

*holds your hand*

[omglawdork.livejournal.com]

Ugh, that has totally happened to me on GDocs before. Thank God it's almost always recoverable. Still, *deep breathes with you*. Terrifying.

[fyrdrakken]

Clearly I need to look into this GoogleDocs thing for composing fic on my cellphone, since the private-entries-in-my-JF-account method tends to make the entire post go bye-bye if the connection fails when I hit update or I accidentally close the browser window. And periodically saving the post and then ducking back into the edit window is just such a headache on mobile-browsing speed...

[seperis.livejournal.com]

Normally, I love it. It has a lot of the same functions as Word and is pretty easy to use.

[fyrdrakken]

I was driving myself buggy on this last week when I did like an entire chapter of a fic in JF and had to rewrite the latter half from scratch after I closed the browser window by mistake. And I could not find a regular word processing or even text file program for my Blackberry short of dropping like $50 or $70 on MS Office or some such. And I have that function on my PDA, but I can't use it to post files online, and it's too much of a headache copying files to the wee disk so I can transfer them to a computer. (Unless I were going to be composing the entirety of a fic on the PDA and only getting it off in postable segments. Which I might consider if I had a working folding keyboard for the PDA, since a friend has composed entire novel-length fics that way. It would be more comfortable than typing with my thumbs on the wee 'Berry QWERTY keypad, at least, but I couldn't easily switch from portable composing to writing on any computer I might be using.)

[justabi.livejournal.com]

Oh my god. *clutches fic* That would freak me the fuck out. *hands you inhaler*

[seperis.livejournal.com]

I cannot fix this fic. I am going to kill it with fire.

*stares at you* Make me fix it?

[justabi.livejournal.com]

Fix it. Then send it to me. Immediately.

[seperis.livejournal.com]

That didn't work. Kill with fire now? *hopeful*