I am planning a computer killing

Melusine is evil. No other explanation for her latest sabotage, which involved erasing all of the work I’d been doing on the electronic version of the copy-edited manuscript. I’ll spare you the gory details, will say only that her time is coming, and it will involve an encounter with an asphalt street and a bulldozer. Only the computer gods know when I can surface again, so here is an interesting article about a favorite medieval king of most of us. Who knew he spoke with a lilt????
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/50710181/ns...
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Published on October 03, 2013 06:43
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message 1: by Elli (new)

Elli Hope this thing yes taken care of, pronto! So unfair. It is nice when people bring this sort of thing to public attention....


message 2: by Darcey (new)

Darcey ... Take a look at Dropbox. Really. I love Dropbox with every ounce of my being.


message 3: by Sharon (new)

Sharon This is for my British readers. I don't know why or how long it will last, but the Lionheart e-book is currently being offered for sale on Amazon.co.uk for only ninety-nine pence.


message 4: by Charlene (new)

Charlene Oh how awful! Makes you want to cry, doesn't it? Like Darcey, I use Dropbox and also email myself copies of my manuscripts so they sit as an attachment in a folder in my inbox. I still managed to lose some other files that I hadn't backed up. It's so frustrating!

Keep those demons away & best of luck with your editing.


message 5: by Jennifer (new)

Jennifer get.a.mac!


message 6: by Frances (new)

Frances Is the lost work recoverable?

Like Charlene, I like to send bits of my work as attachments to my email address every day so I have multiple copies of stuff lurking around on the internet. It's great for shifting computers too.


message 7: by David (new)

David Elkin Won't get into Apple vs. Windows, but do buy a external HD and back up every night. Quick and Ease, and the external drives are down to around a $100.


message 8: by Sharon (new)

Sharon I use Carbonite for backup and I also do extensive backups of my work with flashdrives. My backup computer, Spock, has not yet gone over to the Dark Side like Melusine or her late, unlamented partner in crime, Demon Spawn. My publisher says there have been incompatibility issues with their edited documents and their writers' computers in the past, but nothing as troublesome as mine---naturally! I'll look into Dropbox, too, Charlene. Melusine has raised some red flags before; I discovered this summer that she'd not actually saved several chapters she claimed she had, which was an inconvenience but not a calamity because I always back the chapters up. I'd consider replacing her but I have heard horrible things about Windows 8 and I still have nightmares about Windows Vista, so I am wary of getting a new computer right now.


message 9: by Charlene (new)

Charlene Sharon wrote: "I use Carbonite for backup and I also do extensive backups of my work with flashdrives. My backup computer, Spock, has not yet gone over to the Dark Side like Melusine or her late, unlamented par..."

Spock :) Mine is Skywalker.

Windows 8 is ridiculous - as soon as it opens, I click on the desktop and forget about all the useless apps Windows attempts to infuse our lives with. I also have a Mac - Word for Mac falls short of the Windows version, and I've had problems with it. I use it for writing, but when it comes down to formatting large documents, I do the editing on Windows.


message 10: by Sharon (new)

Sharon Skywalker is a great computer name, Charlene!


message 11: by Cyndi (new)

Cyndi Martin Mine is Sven. I had a thing for a Sven in college and a girlfriend explained to me that "some of us can have a Sven and some of us can't". I guess I can!


message 12: by Tedders (new)

Tedders I've taken to calling my laptop Jim (Moriarty, so how well he treats me is fairly evident.


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