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Why You need to make backups!

Me: Was working on dividing up a ridiculously long word doc of a book I have been working on off and on since last year.

Me: Cut a chapter to paste to another doc. Forgot to paste. Also forgot that if you exit out after saving changes to OG doc you need to make sure to save the cut section to the clipboard.

End Result: Lost the entire chapter and have to rewrite it from memory. Also, didn’t know there’s a way to save a previous draft on Word so of course that wasn’t turned on.

Moral of the story, double-check everything you do, and make sure to have backups of everything you care about, whether that’s digital drawings, writing saved to the computer, pictures, whatever. It’ll save you a lot of sweat, tears, panic and near-breakdowns.