I’m just gonna say this. Not that it needs saying.
But save your work. Save early. Save often. Save like you’re tapping out the drumbeat of a Bantu dance. Autosave is a lifeline, but that lifeline may or may not be looped around your neck or your genitals.
At least I only lost a day’s worth of work.
Ugh.
Which reminds me… I need to make some backups.
Accidentally Inspired 
I know the feeling! About nine months ago, a USB of mine broke. I nearly lost all my uni work!
Luckily, through a relative’s work colleague I was able to get the contents back. I now use Google Drive as my primary option and USBs and laptop hard drives as my secondary. There is a post titled, ‘BACK UP YOU STUFF’ on my blog where I gave my own ‘save it now!’ spiel….
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Man, how did you manage to break a flash drive? You’ve just about given me a stroke, though. If mine went down…
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There’s a photo in the post. I have no clue….I think it was just flimsy and the connections broke. The actual memory was okay – I just had to access it. Again, this is why I’ve now switched to Google Drive as the primary source….
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