At the time I was working on subtitling a youtube video (through Amara.org), and my keyboard was starting to act up, the E's and T's suddenly didn't register as good as it should, so for instance 'tegen' (the Dutch word for against) took me 5 times to get right.
That just frustrated me, and I slammed down on the laptop, I heard the hard disk start making a loud noise, and I knew I had done something tremendously stupid. I clicked save as quickly as I could, but I was already too late.
On another machine I confirmed that it had not saved my work of that day.
And when I tried to reboot the machine, I can hear the disk try to whir up, but then just powers down again, until I see the bios screen, and I'm left without an OS. So, I know what I can do tonight. Buy a new HDD and reinstall my OS.
At the time I was working on subtitling a youtube video (through Amara.org), and my keyboard was starting to act up, the E's and T's suddenly didn't register as good as it should, so for instance 'tegen' (the Dutch word for against) took me 5 times to get right.
That just frustrated me, and I slammed down on the laptop, I heard the hard disk start making a loud noise, and I knew I had done something tremendously stupid. I clicked save as quickly as I could, but I was already too late.
On another machine I confirmed that it had not saved my work of that day.
And when I tried to reboot the machine, I can hear the disk try to whir up, but then just powers down again, until I see the bios screen, and I'm left without an OS. So, I know what I can do tonight. Buy a new HDD and reinstall my OS.
Amara looks like a really cool website!
I'm so sorry you lost all your work. I hope you can at least have a nice new HDD and maybe some files still saved.
It's a handy webtool for subtitling youtube-videos that I once found, but apparently it doesn't save drafts midway. So that was a painful lesson.
When I get my laptop back up and running, I'll pick up where I left off with the subs.
It's a brand new week, and that means new opportunities for awesome/better stuff to happen.