"rough draft" issues

[rivendellrose]

Okay, who on the f-list uses Rough Draft?

It (my favorite word processor in the whole wide world) is being a total butt lately. Every time I use the "File" sidebar to try to open... oh, let's say my thumb drive (you know, that thing on which I keep EVERYTHING I WRITE), it gives me this error message:

This file cannot be opened.

Possible reasons for this are:
The file name has been misspelled.
The file has been deleted.
The file is in use by another program.

Help? My programs seem to be hating me the last few days...

Oh yeah. And that fic I was worried about? Sure enough, I really did save over the work I did last night. Insert angry and poorly-pronounced Mandarin here. And the reason for the weird double-file thing that caused me to save wrong? This same file problem I just described. Sonofabitch.

Comments

[iamlovely.livejournal.com]

Not fun! I hate it when computers do that!

I lost my 10-page history final paper last year because my computer said the file was corrupt. So I had to hand write the whole thing off the top of my head during my morning classes...and in the end I got a C in my best class. *kicks computer*

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Ack! That's awful!!! *Eyes computer very nervously*

[otterknit.livejournal.com]

Never save only on one form of media. It's way too easy to destroy a thumb drive. Keep extra copies on your computer and back them up to CD every couple months.

And I don't know if it would help in this case, but I usually like to copy things onto my computer before I work on them and then copy them back off when I'm done and need to take them with me.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Yeah, very true. I keep extra copies of most things, but when I've just started a document it's waaaay too easy to forget. Ah well - at least it was only a page or so lost.