hubby just ruined my life

gillyfromlyre

Hi all, I need a bit of advice. I was halfway through writing a story, I had about 60 pages done in ms word, when my hubby came along off his head on grog and deleted it from the desktop. He also went so far as to delete it from the recycling bin as well. What can I do, hes such a dickhead. He said that if I wanted he could try rewriting it, but I wouldn't trust him, every fecking character would be a drug addict or have big boobs if he had his way. What can I do??

Private Joker

You maybe able to retrieve it using tune up utilities there is a program in there called undelete, the sooner you use it the better. http://www.tune-up.com/products/tuneup-utilities/

dmaher1

You can recover it:

http://www.whitecanyon.com/recover-deleted-recycle-bin-files.php

Learn lesson and always back it up....

gillyfromlyre

thats great, I recovered them,thanks ever so much

markw999

Glad you recovered it, although I find that if you do lose something, and rewrite it, it's usually much better.

Bob in Belfast

BTW what is the story about?
I hope it's a love story.hehe

AckwelFoley

ur hubby needs a kicked ass..

not a nice thing he done there.

Good luck with the story

Livvie

gillyfromlyre wrote: »

thats great, I recovered them,thanks ever so much

That's a relief - I really felt for you when I read the opening post! I'm up to Page 210 of my novel. I think I'd slash my wrists if I lost it!

That link about retrieving stuff is really useful.

iguana

I think maybe in future you should keep a few copies, such as a print out everyday, a copy on a disk or save it as an attachment on your email.

gillyfromlyre

Thanks for all the support everyone, I needed it, I felt like ripping his head off and crapping down his neck. He gets very jealous when he sees me typing, he says im getting all "uppity in myself writing fancy books". Anyway we sorted it out, the book is about a Greek who went to America, he was just trying to make a bit of a living when a Turkish man he meets turns into a right bastard. Its a bit more complicated than that but I have a feeling its not too bad at all.

DC

I use Gmail to backup my writing. What you do is to send the document to yourself in an email. As you add to the document, you can reply to the same email with a new attachment and maybe a comment about what you added since the last version. You keep doing this at the end of each writing session.

Gmail has 6,300 MB of free storage space, so you can backup to your heart's content.

LostinBlanch

DC just be sure to check that gmail don't claim copyright for your work because you've uploaded it. I'm notspecifically picking on gmail here but a lot of these sites have nasty little surprises in their Ts & Cs.