• Shit you forgot to save - Aaaand it's gone.
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Post stories of times where you lost a shitton of work due to you forgetting to save, or the computer deciding to say "fuck your shit". Shit like minecraft rollback stories are also welcome. My first example actually occurred today. I was working on a Doom map, and was pretty much ready to playtest an hour's worth of work. Areas of the map that were boxy rooms before this revision were finally detailed up, and I placed a lot more monsters around the map. I left the computer for a minute to put the blankets on the cages of my various pet birds, and when I got back, disaster struck. My computer does this thing once in a while where it'll completely freeze. No keyboard, no mouse, no alt+tab, no ctrl+alt+delete. It's one of those things that happens so infrequently, you never bother to find out what it is, and it's never cost me work up until then. After hard-rebooting the system and suffering through the windows updates that just so happened to install, I faced the harsh reality that doom builder has no autosave function. I finally came to terms with it and mostly recreated what I lost, at the expense of going to bed early. Another story was when I was constructing a rather large spleef arena on a minecraft survival server. This was back in the beta 1.3 days. Me and a buddy managed to grind through the construction, and we just about got the thing finished up. The next day, I was greeted with the arena back to being about 45% done due to the server fucking up and rolling back the entire map. We almost gave up, but I decided to press on and finish it once more. To this day, the arena is one of the most remembered landmarks of that now sadly defunct server.
This used to happen to me occasionally but one time it screwed me over so hard that I hit ^S after nearly every edit nowadays. (I'm a programmer, so saves are quick because it's just text.) [editline]10th June 2015[/editline] (I also don't remember what screwed me over exactly, other than that it was a Flash project which is kind of an indicator of how long ago.)
Sony Vegas crashing in the middle of so many projects. No auto save ;(
The music program I use didn't have an undo button for about ten years.
Wasn't me but back in senior school for Industrial Tech - Multimedia, we had to work on a major project of our choice and we had an entire year to do it (it was worth like 80% of the two-year course). Anyways one of my mates had his final version saved on a USB stick but when he brought it to school on the due date and plugged it into the school computer, the file had corrupted. Mine was working fine (and I had triple redundancy in case it didn't; saved on multiple devices) so I rushed him home so he could retrieve an older version (several weeks old) and attempt to finish it with two hours until the deadline. I dunno how he went in it. [sp]I topped the class with 95% so I didn't really care how he went anyways[/sp]
Video editing/making remixes/playing a game, a few hours go by, crash, progress gone. Always sucks so fucking much.
I was working on this for a good few hours until Photoshop decided to crash and I forgot to save. Most recent screenshot here: [img]http://i.imgur.com/C5F6Sai.png[/img]
A CKII game where I controlled Egypt and all of Sudan and Ethiopia.
Didn't forget to save but a hard drive died and I lost the replica model of cloud ruler temple I was making :suicide:
I forgot to save a 14 page research grant and the second I finished fucking Word went kaput. That is how I lost my first keyboard.
Not really forgetting to save but I accidentally saved during a gameover screen in MGS1. This gameover screen was the only one in the game not to offer you a chance to go back to a checkpoint so I had to replay the game.
[QUOTE=Svinnik;47922381]Not really forgetting to save but I accidentally saved during a gameover screen in MGS1. This gameover screen was the only one in the game not to offer you a chance to go back to a checkpoint so I had to replay the game.[/QUOTE] How do you save on the "Game Over"-screen if the only way to save is in-game by calling Mei-Ling over codec?
I was working on a SFM render with a lot of scenebuild and such, spent like 3 hours on it. I've turned SFM off for a bit but when I came back, it turned out that I've accidently had a invalid character in the project name which meant that the whole thing wasn't saved. Had to redo all of it
[QUOTE=DMGaina;47922455]How do you save on the "Game Over"-screen if the only way to save is in-game by calling Mei-Ling over codec?[/QUOTE] I was playing on PC using an emulator. I pressed f1 to save when i meant to press f3 to reload
like 1,5 page of writing, openoffice has autosave thank god
art project, Adobe Illustrator crashed. Had to restart.
Baldur's Gate 2. Shit I forgot to save before I entered this cave. Shit I forgot to save before I saved before I entered the cave and now I'm fucking stuck to watch myself die over and over. Shit I forgot to sav-:suicide:
[QUOTE=Svinnik;47923046]I was playing on PC using an emulator.[/QUOTE] Boo!
About six months ago Microsoft Word crashed on me, and there were no recent saves. I think I probably lost a good 8-10 hours of work that day.
I lost $400 in bitcoin because I didn't save the password (randomly generated by a program, thus unguessable)
By the third or fourth time I'd sat down for 30 minutes to an hour making a ship in Galactic Civilisations III, only to click an obscure back button by accident or have a crash as soon as I left the editor, I decided I was finished with the game
[QUOTE=DMGaina;47925842]Boo![/QUOTE] i wasn't playing Twin Snakes, that makes it better, right?
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