NaNoWriMo DISASTER
So, like a damn fool, I've been working on my NaNo stuff for about a week now without updating my word count on their website. Partially it's because I'm lazy, and partially it's because I find the copying and pasting tedious. I've been keeping backups of my own, though, because I'm not stupid.
Except that I am stupid.
I've been writing the NaNo work in Scrivener. No prob. I've been backing everything up as .scriv files. No prob.
Unbeknownst to him that all of this was going on, the BL suggested yesterday that I should install the new Mac OS, Snow Leopard, on my system.
Okay, says I. Onto the system Snow Leopard goes.
And then: 'OH MY GOD MY NOVEL IS GONE.'
The Scrivener update for Snow Leopard is available for registered users. I was still using the 30-day trial. (I was going to purchase it after NaNo, because people who finish NaNo get a discount.) The version of Scrivener I have won't open on Snow Leopard.
So now, because I am a FOOL, I have no novel (40,000 words gone), no Scrivener, and no way to get the NaNo discount for Scrivener.
I have been trying desperately to retrieve the text in some other file format, but so far it is all gobbledy-gook.
What a clusterf*ck.
Except that I am stupid.
I've been writing the NaNo work in Scrivener. No prob. I've been backing everything up as .scriv files. No prob.
Unbeknownst to him that all of this was going on, the BL suggested yesterday that I should install the new Mac OS, Snow Leopard, on my system.
Okay, says I. Onto the system Snow Leopard goes.
And then: 'OH MY GOD MY NOVEL IS GONE.'
The Scrivener update for Snow Leopard is available for registered users. I was still using the 30-day trial. (I was going to purchase it after NaNo, because people who finish NaNo get a discount.) The version of Scrivener I have won't open on Snow Leopard.
So now, because I am a FOOL, I have no novel (40,000 words gone), no Scrivener, and no way to get the NaNo discount for Scrivener.
I have been trying desperately to retrieve the text in some other file format, but so far it is all gobbledy-gook.
What a clusterf*ck.