Microsoft Word

Should have saved your document at least once in all that time, dumbass.

Install gentoo

>>58024458
I assumed that microsoft had caught on to the "autosave" system google has been using for years. I usually just use Google Docs

>>58024462
No u

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>>58024445
>I spent all day and night writing my final essay in MS Word

>never saved once in all this time
>apparently disabled auto-save feature

>>58024445
this >>58024458

besides, pretty sure word default autosaves from time to time

>>58024445
I mean you should more or less remember what you wrote, right? Just start typing again. If you type something average like 100 wpm you'll have it done in no-time.

I work as IT at an upper secondary school and I see this shit every exam. Idiotic students who don't save a single time, and then their word crashes without any autosaving because the autosave often requires the document to be saved at least once.

It's your own fault for being a dumbass, consider proper document handle a part of the exam (it's something you'll need for work life too), and you failed it.

download 'agent ransack'

search c:\
filetype: *
for the 'search within files' type any word you typed in your document. scan the entire hard drive.. itll take a while but thats all i can think of.

>>58024469
Auto-save usually only kicks in once you save at least once. OP is probably underage as fuck or in his first year of uni if he doesn't know that.

>>58024469
>>58024471
>>58024478
Hurr you're stupid for not saving manually

How am I the stupid one here, microsoft should know this is a classic fucking problem what could they possibly stand to lose by autosaving my essay jesus christ

>>58024478
chill

>>58024493
Thank you anon if Recuva doesnt find it I will try that

>>58024445
relax bro

I'm sure MS saved a copy of it at HQ :^)

>>58024518
>Hurr you're stupid for not saving manually
Yes. you are really fucking stupid, you stupid fucking dumb fuck.

>>58024538
If he's using Windows 10 they definitely did kek

>>58024543
> You didn't think to take a pre-caution for something that's never happened to you

Damn I sure am fucking stupid gosh golly gee thanks anon I feel cured of my stupidity now that some angsty little man on a taiwanese rice farming site pointed that out to me wow

>>58024518
Wow you're retarded. Can't wait for you to bomb out of your shitty course with that attitude. Of course saving a hard copy of your "important essay" is better than relying on some auto save function. You clearly rushed it out last minute pulling an all nighter anyway so you're a shit student and a dumb fucking faggot who deserves to fail.

>>58024564
Instead of arguing with us you could be rewriting your essay, idiot. Get to work.

>>58024466

You're really stupid and I don't feel bad at all. You deserve this. Get a clue, millennial.

>>58024565
I get all A's, finish my assignments the night they are due, and my teacher loves me

Stay jealous faggot

pro tip: write the header like your name and title of work etc., and then make the first save before you continue

>>58024575
Shut your fucking mouth fucking twat.

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>19 replies
>1 helpful anon

/g/ really has become a shithole

>>58024579
What do you get all As in, English Literature? You fucking dumb shit. I'm not jealous at all, I've already graduated, I'm just marvelling at your dumb ass. If you're the best in your class with this much stupidity then it can't be a challenging course.

>>58024599
>dumb frog poster

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>>58024599
1. not your tech support
2. it was always a shithole
3. frogposting is a red flag

>>58024603
Come over here so I can beat your ass faggot. You talk a lot of shit cunt.

>>58024599
>frogposting
Underage confirmed, not your tech support you fag. You should be thankful for what help you got, you don't deserve it.

>>58024518
You'll save manually next time.

You just failed the computer IQ test, sorry brah.

>>58024518
>Why don't cars brake automatically when I want to stop?
Because they are dumb machine. You are supposed to be the intelligent one.

>Why don't guns automatically put the safety back on when I am done shooting?
Because they are dumb machine. You are supposed to be the intelligent one.

>Why doesn't the fridge door automatically close when I walk away?
Because they are dumb machine. You are supposed to be the intelligent one.

>Why don't computers save my files without any prompting from me?
Because they are dumb machine. You are supposed to be the intelligent one.

>>58024694
>Because they are dumb machine.
Machines*.

I geuss I am the dumb two.

>final Essay
>He still uses word not latex
Kys. Srsly.

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>>58024445
>not using rsync to backup to a raspberry pi

You got what you deserved.

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Lol, recuva found my essay

eat a dick you smug faggots

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>>58024518
>I messed up but it's someone else's fault.

>>58024445
>>58024493
>>58024528
You're not going to find it on your disk since you never saved it. The document stayed in your RAM so no file recovery software will ever find anything on your disk. Have fun wasting your time trying though, retard.

>>58024738
Make sure to save it this time dumb frogposter

>>58024738
guys don't believe this memer

I'm still panicking and trying all sorts of methods now

I am literally in tears rn

>>58024738
No it didn't, see
>>58024751

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>>58024738
Dumb frogposter

>>58024738
>>58024762
Moot! We need per-thread poster ID!

>>58024762
Literally your own fault, you're not going to be able to find a back-up because you didn't save it once all day and night. Ask for an extension on your deadline and re-write it.

>>58024774
>Moot
Quite nice meme

>>58024738
Because MS Word autosaves your documents like you were complaining that it doesn't. You just didn't know how to recover it with the program.

>>58024776
>Ask for an extension on your deadline and re-write it.
This is good advice. You wrote it once, writing it a second time should be easier.

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>>58024762
>>58024738

No... I AM SPARTACUS!

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this is it guys

i give up

it's really embarassing having to ask my friend again to copy and rewrite his essay at the last minute but I need this grade

wish me luck

>>58024762
That's what you get for being a retard, cry more bitch nigga

>>58024804
>flagging yourself for plagiarism instead of admitting you fucked up and asking for an extension
RIP dumb underager.

>>58024804
>I screwed up once
>Gonna do it again, wish me luck
Do the right (and smart) thing. Re-write your own essay.

>>58024804
see >>58024818

also
>I was adding hyperlinks to my bibliography the program crashed
learn latex.

>>58024825
This, if you're in a halfway respectable institution they have really sophisticated plagiarism detection software. I've seen tons of students get busted for taking their friend's essay and replacing a few words. You'll be fucked over and fail out of the whole course as it retroactively fails all your other work too.

>>58024804
haha what a gimp

>>58024445
I'm going to assume that you're never going to learn how to use LaTeX because you're an idiot, so here's a real solution:

1: Write your text in a text editor, like WordPad, Notepad++ or gedit.

2: When you're done with the text, copypaste it into word and do the fonts, styling etc.

3: ????

4: Profit.

Writing text and setting text up to be a document are two different processes and should be treated as such.
It's always better to write in a simpler environment where you are alone with your text, so that you're able to concentrate on the important things alone.

>>58024445
>Not using google docs for uni essays
Retard micro cuck LOL
you deserve what you got

>>58024936
But then dumbass kids can't see if they need to write "just a few more words" to get to a page minimum.

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>>58024466
this is why I'm leaving /g/

regardless of if this is bait or not

fuck you newfags. you ruined my board

>>58024707
Sasuga.

>>58024445
relax, just call up the NSA - since you're using windows, they have a backup of your entire life

>>58025417
>implying Linux is NSA-proof

>>58025537
nah, it's just that linux users have no life

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>not using Botnet Docs
You deserve it

>>58024445
You're fucked. Learn to save and stop being an idiot.

Write shit in Google Docs and then copy to word for formatting, if you're that much of an infant.

>>58024445
This is why you use google docs.

>>58024804
rofl you and your friend get kicked from Uni for this, idiot
Good riddance

>>58024599
This. true story.

>>58025855
NOT. YOUR. PERSONAL. TECH. SUPPORT.

What about this rule do you not understand? You asked for tech support for a hilariously stupid thing YOU did to yourself and anons rightfully roasted you. Fuck off.

Google Docs FTW. If you don't mind your essay being saved forever and a copy automatically sent to the NSA, anyhow.

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>>58024518
Pages (and UIDocument based apps) on macOS do this the right way. Any document you create gets autosaved as soon as you make changes. Then it autosaves regularly, to avoid losing data. These documents are incrementally versioned as well.

>>58025936
Honestly if it's just a college paper then who gives a shit

>>58024694
> cars
Self-driving cars are coming. In the meantime, they already automate the distribution of braking power to the individual brakes.
> guns
Guns aren't for dumb people; you're supposed to be trained in their use. If you're shooting at something, chances are you want to kill it. Chances are you might have to follow up with another shot. Automatic safety would be a good way to get combatants killed.
> fridge
I'm sure there are already self-closing fridges. If there aren't: Shouldn't be hard to do, guess I know what I can do if I get tired of being someone's employee.

I agree with your point though; people should not expect machines to do everything for them.

>>58025841
>uni
I'm willing to bet OP isn't even out of high-school yet

>>58024445
There is a way to recover your files but you do not deserve that.

>messing with your bibliography
a cold chill ran down my back. if i woke up one day and latex/bibtex just suddenly stopped existing, i swear to god i would have to consider dropping out of my phd program. too much of my work would become nitpicking about proper citation styles and shit, to say nothing of layout/typesetting in general.

also, lol at a crash making the document unrecoverable. meanwhile my advisor can diff versions of my papers on a word by word basis if he wants. we could cherry pick and recover shit at any level of granularity through git.

this is exactly like when someone complained that this excel spreadsheet in which they were doing a ton of data analysis/visualization got corrupted or something and was all fucked. i had this distinct "there but for the grace of god go i" feeling.

>>58024518
I think that even without saving m$ was creating shadow file somehwere in the system, but I may be wrong.

Usually people hate cloud because muhh botnet, but in situation like this you would be happy as fuck if you had logged in into m$ account with your office

> Not setting autosave feature to 1 minute

You deserve it annon

>>58024445
>NOT SAVING HIS SHIT DIRECTLY IN THE CLOUD AND CLICKING CTRL+S EVERY 2 MIN
I spit on you, anon!

>>58026460
>Having to configure you OS and applications to not lose data by default

>>58026469
>Having to manually save

OP is retarded desu senpai.

>>58024710
this, fuck WYSIWYG

write all your work in .tex files, and save them in some could connected folder such as megasync, it would be a great beginning.

Just use some code editor next time, it will autosave for you.

>>58026336
If OP hasn't written enough in word processors to know that you actually have to save the document this is probably true.

>>58026537
Just because Word and Google Docs do a bad job of WYSIWYG doesn't mean all word processors are as bad. Pages is great.

>>58026617
WordPerfect and WordStar had page-break markers.

>not writing your relevant shit in LaTeX
You asked for it.

Hello thread creator, it's me, Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft.

It has come to my attention that you had issues with MS-Word, oh my.

Send me your reddit profile so we can have a talk.

>>58024445
>essay
>it's christmas
you fucked up or you live in a muslim country

>>58024445
>relying on a microsoft product to work properly
always save your shit dumbass

Op is an absolute retard that can't push CTRL-S.

Get fucked.

>>58024445
they tell children in elementary schools to save file frequently...

>>58024518
You're definitely right, autosaving is a modern feature included in OS X Pages and GoogleDocs, there's literally zero reason for Microsoft not to have it, but MS being MS it shouldn't be held to world-class standards.
Of course, /g/ being contrarians they will place the blame on you. Those are the rules on this place, if they can passive-aggressively harass you they will.

>he wasn't conditioned to press ctrl-s after every action by using an unstable DAW/IMP/IDE/WHATEVER

>>58024518
>How am I the stupid one here, microsoft should know this is a classic fucking problem what could they possibly stand to lose by autosaving my essay jesus christ

You're the stupid one because you're now the one without a final essay.

>>58028259
Honestly if a final essay took him "all day and night" he's probably in high school.

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>mfw both Word and Wordpad crash as soon as I open them

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Could I recommend one of these, OP?

>>58024498
No, it saves automatically even if you don't save it for the first time (at least on my PC it does)

>>58024445
>MS Word
>He doesn't write markdown in Vim and frequently commit to a git repo
Serves you right.

See pandoc or wkhtmltopdf for md conversion.

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>>58024466
>google docs

>>58028533
>markdown
>bibliography
lol.

just learn latex. the learning curve is a little unforgiving but it pays off significantly in biblatex/bibtex

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>>58024579
buttmad freshman detected
kys

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>>58024445
For me, it's Wordperfect™, the only word processor.

>my suicide failed. Let's tell /g/ about it
Kys

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>>58024445
No sympathy faggot

>>58024518
What a retard. Microsoft always recovers my documents after a crash. Even the unsaved ones. Bet you were using a version earlier than 2013 like a fucking peasant.

>>58024445
But Word does this you retard. This is what you get when you use Word 2003.

>>58029557
>>58029605
/thread

>>58024594
Fag

OP is retarded and has no concept of "save early save often" only has himself to blame

Save early, save often

>>58024445
maybe you should take that as a sign that it would be better if you redid it with a fresh mind

>>58024445
>writing any kind of academic text
>not using latex and a private repo for version control

Unironically delet urself.

>>58029796
OP will only delete himself if you also delete yourself

Cool thread OP.

Saw it earlier today when I was wirting my own essay. Now I finished and sent it for grading.

And I pressed Ctrl+S often.

hey does libreoffice have autosave feature?

>>58024804
>>58024883
I always loved it when I watched idiots literally turn in the same papers with the exception of changing a few words

whenever I copied essays, I would rewrite every paragraph just by switching the ordering around as well as replacing the words with synonyms

never got caught

>>58024445
I lost all of my notes for college 3/4ths of the way through the semester. Now, I exclusively use Google Docs for everything. Some powerpoints get fucked up when converting to Docs format, but I don't have to worry about losing my files.

>>58024962
Not using LaTeX

>>58024445
At this point, just rewrite the essay and cut your losses. SAVE FREQUENTLY AND KEEP BACKUPS next time.

>>58024466
office had this feature since like office xp. OP is an underage fag for disabling it/he completed his essay before the autosave could kick in which is like 5 - 10 mins.

>>58024445
Use LibreOffice instead, idiot. You don't have to save the file at least once for autosave to be enabled.

bullshit, you're telling me your program didn't autosave every 5 minutes?

check all your "untitled" files.

>>58024445

We all hope you hurry up and die......

>>58024445
Seriously? People still have classes this semester? What kind of cuck are you?

>>58024445
You're so not /g/.

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>>58026022

Mr.Steve Jobs was a Genius.

>>58024518

It's really weird to see so many people defending the fact that word doesn't autosave out of the box in 2016. Is this stockholm syndrome? As an emacs user I would be completely baffled if a modern text editor didn't autosave.

>>58033624
This.

Word has been autosaving automatically (even unsaved "untitled" docs) for ages. At least since Word 2003.

Either OP is full of it, or OP disabled the feature, or (improbably) a bug fucked it all up.

Fuck you faggots with your gay shit memes. I was trying to get actual work done and unlike you ugly virgins have a life.

It's not my issue if Microsoft fucks up and is retarded

I had to fucking take my friends essay and change it up because you losers thought you were so superior.

So have fun with your little penises and your gay anime manbaby crap on your shit computers.

>>58033821
kill yourself

>>58033821

Raging at other people because of your own stupidity. Seriously......Hurry up and kill yourself.

>>58024622
You should turn in that essay first.

>he doesnt click the save button always at least 3 times

What is this shit? Use LaTeX

itt stupid person does stupid thing, other stupid people call him out on it

>>58024466
Diagnosis: You're a fucking moron.

>>58024622
Write your essay.

>>58024445
What about using latex + git the next time? Gitlab allows private repos for free.

>>58024445
look under your temp folder.

>>58028202
Shh, don't encourage him.

>>58029676
Kill yourself faggot.

>>58033948
After I cave your fucking skull in bitch.

>>58024445
>spend all fucking day and night writing an essay
>never once hit ctrl+s
Brah.

>>58024445
>not writing essays on sublime

pleb

I always hit ctrl+s every so often to the point you don't even think about it. Anyone typing something lengthy or critical first is a fucking idiot and will hopefully learn his life lesson when he fails his final due to his own stupidity.

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>>58024466
>microsoft word
>google docs
No wonder you are upset.

>>58035886
I always save after each word I type.

You're gonna want to search your hard drive for any files with the .ASD extension.

Godspeed, anon.

>>58024445
I'm sorry to hear both that you lost your essay and that you're using an ms office version from 1995 that doesn't have autosave every 10 minutes.

>>58024445
buddy
gimme your paypal buddy

>>58024445
When you get old and out of school, you'll see all this fuss as total bullshit. Trust me. Don't sweat it and try your best

>>58024478
I'm sure kids can't wait to ask you for help

>>58024466

>I assumed
When you do this, you make an ass out of you and me, Anon. Don't assume.

>>58024445
Look in appdata

The Apple MacBook Pro with Retina Display doesn't have this problem.

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>>58024518
Fucking triggered.
What could you possibly stand to lose by pressing Ctrl + S once in a while?
Nigger.

>>58024445
>About to kill myself you guys
why are you still alive?

>>58024466
Mallenials are just too fucking stupid to even save a document.

>>58024518
You're a fucking tool nigger. Stop being so helpless and think about what you're doing for once.

>>58039885
>>58039920
I honestly agree with this anon, but not for the reason you think. But if you are going to pay for a product/service, it had damned well be objectively superior to the free services. That includes solving problems that occur on the User end, rather than the program end.

Why spend 100+ bucks on Office if it's not going to help keep the retards from being retarded? That's the entire point of M$'s existence.

>frog posting
>not saving a document
>not ending it right now live on cam for us
M8...

you guys fell hard for this bad bait, holy shit

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>>58040098
>i-it was just bait guys!
>r-rused you!

>>58024445
>>58024518

>this thread
OP has to be baiting

>>58024518
you're a fucking idiot. it isnt hard to press ctrl + s, faggot.

>>58024445
Should've used latex famalamadong.

haha eat shit uni normie. NEET 4 lyfe here.

I have the latest Office and OneDrive.
Is it possible to auto-sync/save my Word documents to OneDrive while i am working on them?

>>58028791
Oh god I remember using that on win95, holy shit when I got word I never looked back.

>>58024445
>This fag can't type fast enough to recreate it from his photographic memory

>>58024445
Happened to me as well. Trick is to set autosave for every 10 seconds in the settings.

Your essay is gone, good luck.

This is why I use vim for everything. If you need formatting use LaTeX or use google docs after you're done writing it.

>>58024694
my fridge door is set in such a way that it closes by gravity after you walk away

>>58026022
so your system gets incrementally bloated
>ugh my hdd is full, better buy a new mac.

>>58024804
I hope you and your friend get booted for plagiarism, you fucking faggot.

>>58024445
Microsoft Word will recover lost data if you open again after it crashes. Even if you reboot the OS after.
Microsoft Word will recover lost data if you open again after it crashes. Even if you reboot the OS after.
Microsoft Word will recover lost data if you open again after it crashes. Even if you reboot the OS after.
Microsoft Word will recover lost data if you open again after it crashes. Even if you reboot the OS after.
Microsoft Word will recover lost data if you open again after it crashes. Even if you reboot the OS after.

There is no way to fuck this up. So either op is lying or he didn't even try opening word again, making him the biggest retard ever.

>>58024518

I don't get it I get the option to restore a document i was working on when word crashes, even if I didn't save at all what kind of Word are you using

>>58024579
>finish my assignments the night they are due
that no longer seems the case :^)