Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Was ist dieses?
On one of my other writing projects I keep running into this glitch. The document I'm working on is saved to disc, and I add some more changes to it. Then I get an error message, and the whole thing is unsaved. I mean, it's no longer on the discette. The document changes names to something with a tilde and a bunch of numbers. I've been dealing with it by copying and pasting to a blank document and resaving. Still, it's more than a little annoying. Anyone else familiar with this/know of a solution?
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'The document I'm working on is saved to disc, and I add some more changes to it. Then I get an error message, and the whole thing is unsaved.'
you get an error message when you try to save, or you just get an error message while making changes?
when you save, do you resave over your original file, or rename & save as a new file? (the latter is never a bad idea, & you can always delete the original & rename the new one later)
'I mean, it's no longer on the discette. The document changes names to something with a tilde and a bunch of numbers.'
it sounds like the file becomes corrupted, maybe? bad sectors on the disc? again, don't over-write the original file, & save your changes to a new file.
it could also have something to do with how the 2 applications you're using (i'm assuming you're using 2 machines if you're carrying your document around on a disc) recognize the document's format, as well. different versions of, say, wordperfect don't always recognize/deal with a formatted document the same way (thank you, microsoft)...
'I've been dealing with it by copying and pasting to a blank document and resaving.'
the main thing is not losing the original, &, tho it's 'inelegant', if that works, it works - screw elegance :) ...
Hey there. It might be a corrupt part of the disc. There were a lot of different things on it, but I didn't think it was at capacity yet. Eventually I wound up saving this draft to a different, less populated discette, with no problems.
But thank you for the advice, which I think is good.
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