Comedian's choice

[pandigital]

Just caught this on Richard Herring’s blog

Not much writing done today, but loads of thinking and planning, which is just as important. There was one gut-wrenching, sick making moment when I accidentally deleted the whole chapter I was working on, rather than just a block of text that I was moving to another document. I was working on some software called “Scrivener” and there seemed to be no undo button. Three days work had, I thought, gone down the toilet. I had an earlier version saved in Word, but had done so much to it that the idea of starting again was almost unbearable. But luckily I then spotted the trash folder and my chapter was safe and sound in there.

richardherring.com/warmingup … hp?id=2264

[KB]

Blimey. I used to love Lee and Herring. (I’m glad I changed the shortcut for deleting sections to cmd-delete for 2.0, too, so that this common error won’t trip people up any more…)
Thanks for pointing this out!
All the best,
Keith

[T-Dane]

I have NEVER ever ever been so thankful for anything (related to the subject of writing) than I was today for finding your post!!!
My chapter WAS in the waste basket!!!

Getting it out of there was a bit more tricky, while being in such a state of mind as I was, thinking it had all gone!
With a bit of copy-paste, it’s back where it belongs and I’ve not only backed up to my ‘documents’ folder but also an external devise!

So thank you again, - also for making such a detectable title!

[Juddbert]

@KB

Blimey. I used to love Lee and Herring. (I’m glad I changed the shortcut for deleting sections to cmd-delete for 2.0, too, so that this common error won’t trip people up any more…)
Thanks for pointing this out!
All the best,
Keith

I’m quite partial to Lea & Perrins too!
(I know, I know. I’m sorry… I’ll just wander off over here, or maybe somewhere else.)