I tried searching on this, but it’s a hard problem with search, but I’ve seen this happen twice now.
I am outlining a book using index cards and filling in the synopsis of each. I currently have around 75 cards and I’ve been creating new ones, moving the text from one to another to delete others as I consolidate ideas, and as I was working, I came across an index card with the synopsis text of a different card. I thought “Did I screw that up somehow?” I fixed the text.
Then I displayed all of the cards, they are all in one folder, and created three new folders (Before/During/After) so that I can start sorting them into some kind of basic order. Then I noticed the my first card had the wrong synopsis text in it, text that has nothing to do with the subject of the card. Then I noticed my third card had the same thing, the wrong information. The information they did contain is gone. These two cards were individually made early on, being at the top, and had not been touched and are not duplicates. I also, at no point, even copy whole synopsis text from one card to another. Both of these are now filled with a lot of text.
I also still have the two cards which correctly contain that same text.
One other bit of information. One of the cards that had the incorrect synopsis had a version of that text prior to an update I made to the actual card that contains the synopsis. That is, it had old data.
Now, I didn’t do something stupid three times without my knowing it. I know when I’m being stupid.
Has anyone else noticed a similar problem?