Waaaah. (Teach me not to save to my hard drive.)

[heather]

I lost my freaking jump drive.

My  JUMP DRIVE, people.

I feel sick.

This is bad for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that I had Chapter 5 of Laws of Motion on there, and it was virtually complete, and I was going to come in to work (because I thought I'd left it there), add the last bit to the chapter, and send it to my beta (sorry, Jim)

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[annearchy]

Here, have an icon...

I've learned to back up all my stories to my Yahoo Briefcase. If you have a Yahoo ID, you automatically get something like 3 gig of storage.

[heather]

Thanks for the icon! *snatches it*

Yahoo Briefcase, eh? 3 Gs? That sounds a hell of a lot better than my $80 1 GB load of rubbish flashdrive. ahem.

Great advice. And even if I do find the jump-drive, I'm doing that. Thanks!

[annearchy]

Okay - I was wrong. It's only 30 Meg. Still a lot better than nothing.

[heather]

Definitely better. What good is 1 GB if I can't find the bleeding thing? lol. Thanks!

I'm so sorry hon

[acoustics1220]

I know how you feel.

Really, I do.

I didn't lose mine, I DESTROYED it.

Well I didn't destroy it, but my computer did.

-by landing on it.

Seriously. It fell to the floor, on its side, the side that I had my jump drive plugged into it, it was a perfect L shape it was.

And then I tried to straighten it(my jump drive) and ended up disconnecting one of the metal connectors. The only way I got it to work was by manhandling it while it was in the usb hole and literally pushing the metal bits together so it would 'work' right.

It lit up and everything and then I thought...can I get electrocuted by touching this?

*shrug*

I'm alive so obviously I didn't get electrocuted.

Is there no way of finding it?

I'm sorry. I would so give you a hug right now if I could, or try and tear up your house looking for that stupid jump drive.

Take a breather.

Deep breaths. I hate it when the blood is pounding in my ears.

Re: I'm so sorry hon

[heather]

Thank you for the well wishes. (and the funny story.)

I'm breathing. It's difficult to concentrate on work, though.

*hugs you back, long distance*

I'm going to leave work and sneak over to the college and look for it. Maybe someone found it and turned it in. I hope so... doubt it, but I hope so. :/

Thanks again!!!

Re: I'm so sorry hon

[acoustics1220]

I'm hoping someone did the good deed for ya - that is to say, I hope someone decided to be a good person and not steal your jump drive at the college.

Hopefully, by some miracle of goodwill (because of the holiday season approaching of course) someone just happened to see it and think, that needs to be turned in to lost and found.

I hope I hope I hope

-just for you.

you liked the story didya?

well, I have to say when it happened I didn't think it at all funny.

But then I *was* laughing after I was able to get ALL of my files MOVED to my computer's hardrive.
-m

Re: I'm so sorry hon

[heather]

You're sweet. ^_^

(I didn't mean it was funny that your drive got wasted, of course. But the way you told it was funny, I guess I meant. I definitely wouldn't laugh at that situation, especially now. lol.)

But yeah, here's hoping someone does the right thing, eh? I'll report with my findings on this unplanned social experiment. lol.

Thanks again, sweetie. *hugs you*

[eowynhp83]

sorry to hear (or read) that. take a deep breath----hmmmmm----if all else fails scream.

[heather]

Thanks for the well wishes, hon!

I'm trying not to scream- don't want to freak out my coworkers. lol.

Cheers!

::Hugs::

[adamanteve19]

So sorry that happened. Are you sure you didn't have the file temporarily saved on any computer? Even if you don't get all of it, you can at least find part of it still intact, maybe? This has happened to me before and I had to frantically search WITHIN the computer, deleted files, .txt and stuff.

If all hope is lost, then you need an ice-cream, or something just as indulgent. I've lost harddrives before. I've lost chapters. It's heartbreaking. But look at it this way: Start afresh. Don't think about those lost one-liners and lovely details. More often than not, when you rewrite something without obsessing over what used to be, it turns out SO much better.

::hugs:: Still, I'm sorry that happened. :(

Re: ::Hugs::

[heather]

Thanks! *hugs back*

I do have bits of it on my computer at home. Mostly I end up just throwing my stuff onto the flash drive because on any given day, I'm typing on any of three different computers. But I know now. I'm never relying just on my jump-drive anymore. Annearchy just recommended that I save it to a Yahoo Briefcase. Not a bad idea to be able to access it anywhere.

That's great advice about the rewrite. If I have to (still hoping that I don't), it's a better way of looking at it than my whole crapwhatamIgoingtodopoorme attitude. Which, not suprisingly, hasn't been working all that well. '^_^ I'm going to zip over to the college after during work to see if anyone turned it in.

Thanks for the well wishes, advice, and comiseration! Muchly appreciated. *tosses good karma at you*

[adamolupin]

Oh babe! *HUGS* I think all the authors here are wincing in pain for you. Those little one-liners, the placement and play of words that's just perfect and you've got it down so you don't have to remember it and then it's all gone? It's like being kneed in the nads! Not that I'd know what that literally felt like, but figuratively it hurts!

Not to mention the school stuff. I think I'd sob like a baby if something had happened to my thesis!

*HUGS* I hope someone does the right thing and it shows up.

[heather]

*hugs back*

Yeah, it definitely sucks. I'm glad at times like this that I don't have any nads. Owie.

Oh, god, your thesis? Talk about panic. I couldn't imagine. Glad that didn't happen! When I start mine in a year or so I'm not putting it anywhere near a flash drive. I'll scribble it out on looseleaf paper and hide that sucker in a fireproof box under my bed until time to type it all out.

I hope someone does the right thing, too. I'm sneaking out of work to see if anyone turned it in, and I'll report my findings on this impromptu social experiment. *g*

Thanks for the hugs and well wishes. Watch out for that good karma. It's coming.