Kinda bad news.

[MommyDoom]

Fel if you were using word some time you it saves an Ato recovery file. all you have to do is search the tcomputer and type:
AutoRecovery*.asd
If word made an atuorecovery you should be able to find it that way. I hope that might help.

He doesn't use word.  He uses TextPad or some other kind of editor.

MD

Fel dear, someone asked you to give us the format for your reference file, so we can reread the Sub chapters and fill in your reference stuff FOR you.  I mean most of us don't have anything better to do anyway...

[Greymist]

I agree, even though I'm at work I don't have anything better to do, I mean my managers might disagree but I think they're wrong.  ;D

[thisandthat]

Or better yet - post the bad file.

Maby one of us can fix it

[Fel]

Too late, I already deleted it.

And I do my ref files in Notepad, just flat unformatted txt docs, that i keep up in another window when I write.  Just an old habit, I guess.  I'm a creature of habit.

Though I think that'll change, cause at least Word DOES do emergency backups.  Had I kept my ref file in Word, I'd not have lost it.

What was in it was what you'd expect.  Names, dates, basic information like appearance (you'd be surprised how easy it is to, for example, forget what color hair Meya and Myra have), but I also kept things in there like the Faey calendar, ship types, the seven races of the Imperium, and other information of note.

Some of it I have in some spirals that I can copy into a new WORD DOC (hehehe), but the rest I have to reconstruct by reading back through the book.  ;)

[Shadowhawk]

I do my ref files in Notepad, just flat unformatted txt docs, that i keep up in another window when I write.  Just an old habit, I guess.  I'm a creature of habit.

Though I think that'll change, cause at least Word DOES do emergency backups.  Had I kept my ref file in Word, I'd not have lost it.

First of all, doesn't your text editor do backups? It is quite common when saving file to have older version saved under *.bak (under Windows), or *~ (under Unices). Of course that doesn't help when you delete backup files to save space . Better yet, there are text editors, like Emacs for example (which has it's Windows version; both GNU Emacs, and XEmacs), which if configured can make numbered backups, saving up to #N other versions. You can even define the directory where backups are saved. And good editors (read: e.g. Emacs ) saves current state of your file, so usually you can recover the file you worked on after editor crash.

Second, maybe you should consider using some kind of Version Control system (sometimes called [software] Configuration Managemets systems), so  you would have besides having access to all previous versions of a file (in efficient way), comparing the versions and even annotating when the line was introduced (in which version of the file it appeared in current form). But that migh be an overkill. It all depends...

[thisandthat]

Or use a free test editor like NOTE TAB LIGHT it does do auto backups.   ie BAK files

[zedd]

Has someone been able to start to rebuild the file for Fel?

I will only be able to start in a few days, and i was wondering if someone else had started to compile info.