Jesus Saves… Early and often.
Phrase from the early 90’s, when saving was often to a floppy, and systems were nowhere near as stable as today.
Control-S is your friend.
Unless you save too often and the file was in the middle of saving or loading something and the file corrupts. :)
I’ve never seen that, and not sure how any system could be so badly designed to permit this.
And I’ve been using systems since DOS 1.1 (and punched cards before that).
Unless i’m wrong and the files got corrupted because of something else, it happened to me in the 3D software Sketchup, in indesign, illustrator and acrobat. Acrobat is by far the worst offender. PDFs are just unstable messes in general when trying to work on them.
That happened to me with a word 2011 version. I sent my work file for corrections to my companion, we sat together and worked together through the errors. Several hours later, we saved, and immediatly closed the window. BAM! corrupted file. That was not a good day. We all love microsoft right?
I had a computer lab teacher in the 90’s that was known to tell really long stories, it could be a joke or a shaggy dog depending on his mood, but you wouldn’t know until the end. “Jesus saves” was the punchline to one related to computers. I haven’t thought about him years. Thanks for the reminder.
I think you’re seriously overestimating modern stability.
I don’t think it’s a question that modern systems are more stable; any belief otherwise is just pure nostalgia (or someone who wasn’t actually working on computers in the early 90’s). Plus, the advent of autosave truly was a game-changer.
I’ve been working with computers since the '80s, thanks.
Autosave is surely the best thing since sliced bread, achievable thanks to ample and cheap data storage, but that’s only such a godsend because instability is still an issue. We might have better recovery methods now, but the exponentially increasing complexity of everything introduces weak points as quickly as we can spackle over old ones.
*ignores other comments that already do so and attempts to educates you on the fact that you should have saved your work, thus positioning myself as your guide and mentor in my head to briefly drown out my insecurities and lack of purpose*
Who are you who are so wise in the ways of hindsight?
AutoSave is your friend.
Yeah, autosave is such a lifesaver, I enable it wherever I can, Blender, Krita, Inkscape, Scribus, Thunderbird, autosave it all! And do your backups!
I keep versioned files around too.
Any on-going work gets a new version daily. I start the day by saving current work to a new file, with the date/time in the file name:
E.G. Project Name 2024-04-09_08-32.xls
Using date with 24hr/military time like this enables sorting, and makes clear when the file was updated. This is especially useful iyou have to share a doc with peers - you never question what version they’re looking at (can’t always use a version control system).
Just use ISO 8601, it’s pretty much designed for this.
Yeah, also generally very helpful for documents from banks etc.
(That’s a personal pet peeve of mine when people don’t do it like YYYY-MM but e.g. 1-Jan-2024. Who wouldn’t love to have their documents sorted in a way that it starts with the first day of every month, then all the second days and so on …)
https://joplinapp.org/ does this on it’s export files btw … 😓
My computer’s filesystem stores several “date” metadata fields for each file, such as “date created” and “date modified”, so I don’t have to manually manage such things in the file name. I can simply sort by recently modified, recently created, etc.
And those can change - it’s a local file system reference.
Windows historically has been really bad about this.
I have thousands of files in windows where the created date is actually last modified date - because the local file system updates on copy/move, or it gets altered by email/transfer systems, etc.
Really, would I have come up with my own naming system if the last mod and create dates were effective?
I have thousands of photos where the file system create time is years different than the metadata create time (what the camera stamped).
Yep, and with seconds at best delays. Stopped typing or making changes for three seconds? Save!!
Though autosave kinda’ requires a huge undo limit, at least for me when doing anything remotely artsy. I’m nowhere good enough to not make minutes-long mistakes.
I developed a habit to just hit ctrl + s every time I do something major… Saved me more than once :)
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I’m not kidding when I say Windows has been much more stable when it comes to Adobe photoshop.
Premier, on the other hand, seems to be trying to destroy itself with all the crashes and bugs I get. It’s worse every year, I swear.
Eventually, once this happens enough to you, “in the zone” just involves compulsively pressing ctrl-s
Interesting choice of character for this meme. OP is a true man/woman of culture.
If you work a lot with plain-text files (markdowns, office documents CSV etc.) try learning Git. It is a version control tool - it keeps timestamped versions of your documents, so if you edit something wrong, or delete a wrong file you can bring it back by “checking out” a previous version.
It’s a software development tool originally, so learning it might be daunting for a lot of folks - fear not, download a graphical Git client app and look up some tutorials.
I promise once you get the hang of it, it will be hard to imagine doing anything without it.
One of those tools I wish were more popular among people who are not into software/engineering.
Git is more power than humanity was meant to have.
Indeed it is! That is why we are blessed to have its power obscured by an incomprehensible CLI, aside from a few most common use cases. Still very worth it though.
