A story of mine got corrupted. God damn.

[bldang]

I had about a page done and saved and upon reopening it suddenly it looks like this:

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Fuuuuuuuck.

I wasn't sure where else to post about this. None of the support forums seem right and I am pissed that it's done this to me so here it goes. (If anyone can help, that would be fantastic. I'm a little reluctant to go to other forums for assistance because if they needed to see the whole thing and COULD reconstruct it I didn't want to have to go into why document was Diablo 2 porn. Y'know?)

[DemonGoddess]

I take it this is offsite, and locally on your computer? If so, what program are you using?

[Ezriee]

if it's on your computer, is it saved in a word doc? Mine does that sometimes and I notice that it does it at random if the file is too large. I have some stories that are HUGE, nearly 900 pages and so I have to break them up into smaller segments and save them otherwise I'll go to read that particular story or add more to it if its a file I'm writing on, and the damn thing is shot to shit.

If I remember right, I think this happened with open office too...

[Animedevildog]

I've seen it happen before with .doc files that were too large also. I myself have never had to do something that big in one file. I write my stories chapter per chapter, and house them in their own little folder. This way, I do not have issued of things comming out like an edited version of a sailor's mouth lol

[bldang]

It was Microsoft Word. The weird thing is is that it was only a page and a quarter long. I'm not sure what gives.

Anyone had any luck with recovery?

[DemonGoddess]

If you've enabled autosave, you should be able to recover a save before it got garbled. If you did not, then the file is toast.

[Ezriee]

I have had success, but only by what DG mentioned. The autosave feature. I did lose a good chunk of what I had just written because the autosave hadn't kicked in, but to resolve that, I changed the options so it autosaved more often.

Easily done by going into MS Word and going to tools, options, then click on the save tab. there you can change how often the autosave saves...I have mine set for every 3 minutes.

If you hit your start button, and go to find, type in AutoRecovery and then you can check and see if theres an autorecovery file for your story.

Hope it works for you.