>Microsoft Onedrive had a glitch today, lost everything I

>not using Apple iCloud

you got what u deserved

>>9932091
You still have what you've learned by writing it. Go back and write the things you remember. They'll be better anyway.

Here's a crazy, mysteriously Egyptian idea I'm just going to throw out here:
Paper.

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>>9932131

I bet you vote Republican.

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>>9932140
>voting
WEW

>>9932091
not backing up anything more important than your to-do list is idiotic. Technology fails, glitches, or becomes inaccessible so often.

Why would you do this to yourself? If you needed room on your computer you could at least have turned it into a .txt file to save space

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>not having backups
>not even having copies on your hard drive
>having that much trust on 100% guaranteed customer service
>not understanding the nature of ones tools

Just how small is your storage? Even four and a half years of writing shouldn't take up that much space.

>>9932091
You don't have a computer with a local copy of your drive on it?

>everyone telling OP to back his information up better

The lesson here is to be less attached to your past work, not more. Write on an Etch a Sketch.

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>>9932335

>Not writing on the beach, in the sand at the waterline, having to start again with every wave that crashes ashore

Youngling

Hemingway's wife lost all his work in a train station

Kafka burned 99% of everything he wrote

You'll be alright

>>9932349

>Hemingway's wife lost all his work in a train station

Oh, so that's why he beat her

>>9932091
> single point of failure

it's like you didn't even grow up in the 90s

>>9932091
I'm sorry, anon. You'll write better stuff. <3

>>9932091

That was Edit #1 anon, courtesy of Fate. Now use what you remember and start fresh and trim the fat.

And ffs never trust Microsoft

>>9932091
You can fit 65 000 ms word pages into 1gb. My laptop has 16gb of space, and I'm pretty sure that's about the smallest they make hard drives. Are you telling me you had over a million pages written without thinking about backing it up?

>>9932376

Gotta make room for that sweet, sweet Hentai, heh heh heh

For important things you should keep multiple physical back-ups.

Why would you store anything primarily online? I never use cloud storage. I save everything directly to my laptop's hard drive, and have a flash drive where I keep a lot of my really important stuff, and THEN, as a third-place measure, I back up stuff to the cloud.

I'm sorry for your loss, OP. But don't trust cloud storage.

>>9932091
Why didn't you make backups? You should never, ever treat online storage as permanent.

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Whatever you wrote couldn't have been that great because you're clearly fucking retarded. You shouldn't post a contemplative Charlie Brown to represent your dumb ass, I found a better picture.

It's pretty much standard to have 2 online backups, 2 offline and local backups and 1 offline and non local backup minimum.
It's your own damn fault.

>>9932832

>No wooden chest with physical copies buried in the backyard
>No physical, overseas backup in a swiss bank lockbox
>No thai prostitute that you forced to have your entire canon tattoo'd on her back

Low tier, never post on /lit/ again

Yeah I'm sure we lost the next Crime and Punishment. Write it again,faggot.

>>9932349
Gogol burnt what was expected to be his greatest work
twice

>ywn read the complete dead souls

>>9932091
there's this thing called a usb stick.

maybe I took a b8 though.

>>9932091
sorry about your stuff anon

>>9932091
What do you get out of this lie?

>>9932091

It was probably shit anyway

>>9932181
This. .txt it and run that through any compression software. It'll take a fraction of the space.

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>mum lost her 500 page novel due to hard drive failure
>won't ever have to read her plebshit

>>9932091
>is this like..?
No. They chose to burn their manuscripts, but (you-be-doo) know this.
>will I one day look back?
if (you) do, (you) will two days look back, and three, and four....

>>9932091
So write more.

It'll be better this time. If you wrote anything worthwhile in those four years you'll have learned so much that anything you can make now will destroy everything you made then by comparison.

If you didn't improve in those four years then it was likely time to give up anyway.

Stop hoarding your creations. Let them go when they're finished.

Also, if aren't putting them out there in such a fashion that they can be retrieved (I.e. emails to publishers, magazines), then what was the loss? If you hadn't sent them off you weren't going to. The only joy you could have gotten out of them was re-reading them, which is just masturbatory.

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>>9932091
>storing only one copy, and storing it on the cloud
Learn from this.

>>9932091
This amoust happened to me when my PC broke, but luckly, majority of the works I had in there where backup in one pendrive, so I was gold.
Also, majority of what I most wasent books, were fanfics that were published anyway.
You need to keep a backup op, otherwise this is going to happen and you will get fucked.
I lost some parts of updated books I was working on, but other than that, I dont rember major loses, other than my game saves.

>>9932091
stop dude, I'M starting to freak out

>>9932091
That's retarded. It shouldn't just be gone even if you have no access to it, it might still be some where. Look into it further, could be restored later too.

Also, it's best if you backup your shit and not rely on microjew, especially fucking microjew.

>>9932349
I can't blame him, burning your work is incredibly cathartic.

>>9932837
I lost at the third. Really a top kek, monsieur

>>9932349
Carlyle left the original COMPLETED manuscript of The French Revolution on a train, never to be found. The masterpiece [we] now possess is at least take-2.

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>>9932091
>>9932093
>using the cloud at all and not your personal storage devices
Why would you seriously let the Jews have your
information

>>9934220
passenger trains were almost unheard of in the 1830s. Carlyle's manuscript burned.

>>9932091
>>9932091
Ah, the beautiful cycle of death and rebirth. Now you can start anew without any constraint to your former style, structure, technique, characters, settings, ideas. You can use all you have learned in the creation of ideas past to embark on ascension forward.

>>9934319
Then there's another later 'Victorian' to whom this happened and I'm confusing instances. Fact is, I knew it was lost. But thanks. Clarity's welcome.

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>>9932091
>deleting it from my micro laptop to make space when I had transferred it.
>to make space
>space
oh god, you have to be fucking kidding me. You can have the whole of western literature on a zipped text and still fit it on a dvd. Unless your laptop has like 10 mb of free space that is just plain stupid.

>>9934319
Just researched this. J.S. Mill's maid mistook the on-loan manuscript for waste paper and burnt it!
T. E. Lawrence's 7 Pillars was the veiled object of my confusion. Yet even his manuscript wasn't left on board a train but rather at Reading Station, never recovered. So much for my memory..

>>9934399
Goddamn maids.

Why would you not throw that on a sd card senpai

>>9934399

I go through Reading station every day on the way to work, I'll keep an eye out for it x

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>>9932091
>using OneDrive to store work he cares about
i wonder how shit your writing was with a nut like that

>>9934536

Cute trap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVXJmfd3cmg

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>>9934536
>>9934540

>>9934569
kek'd and check'd

>>9932091
I fail to understand how writing could possibly take up a problematic amount of disk space, let alone so much you you ever risk not having it saved on at least 3 devices/clouds etc...

>>9932091
>not having at least two local copies and using at least two cloud services and print outs

I guess you learned the hard way.

>>9932349
hemingway kill hisself and kafka jerked it to sonic porn

Must've been not that good considering you never backed any of it up nor are you contemplating suicide about the magnitude of such a great loss

>>9934599

have to agree with this guy. anything you write would be kilobytes really. how does that take up too much space. might as well be binary

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>kafka jerked it to sonic porn

I guess it's gone forever, oh boo goo

>>9932091
It was shit anyway. Your first 4 years of writing is practice. Now you can write with experience without the delusions you could publish your trite beginners writ.

>>9934520
Kissed on 4chin/lat/? Unheard of! But thanks, anon. It made my night.

>>9932091
At least you have something to write about now :)

>>9932102
This anon have a point

>tfw I have 60 notebooks full
>thousands of scraps of paper, bills, debt collection letters, rent arrear letters all of which I've used over the years to scribble my thoughts on
I placed all of them into sealed envelopes and stored them in a bag with some of my other possessions (clothing, underwear, etc) so that someone doesn't find them.

I can feel the weight of them crushing down on me each day when I rise out of bed. I thought about burning them, but I know there are great things within the mess. I can't bring myself to destroy them as I know some of what is written will never come to me again. I'm most likely going to keep them with me forever. I would store them in some storage box but I can't afford this and so they have to travel with me wherever I go.

What do?

>>9935694

It's probably all shit, anon.

>>9935797
It isn't, I assure you. Much of it probably is, though.

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>not smoking your own work when sent to Siberia
Get on my level scrubs.