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Originally posted by Brenda:
Looks like I may have lost chapter 13 of my book. I really have to go through my files and hope I find it. I do have it all on computer disk but I would need a printer to be able to print it out. I have a printer but it isn't hooked up. *sigh*

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
If you're using Windows 10, the search function still works. It's gotten increasingly bloated and dumbed down since WindowsXP, but you can use that if you're just looking for file names.

For 13 you could type in the following in the search on the upper right side above your files:

"Thirteen" OR "13"

OR has to be capitalized or it won't work.

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Looks like I may have lost chapter 13 of my book. I really have to go through my files and hope I find it. I do have it all on computer disk but I would need a printer to be able to print it out. I have a printer but it isn't hooked up. *sigh*

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The program called Everything is for finding files, using only the name.
https://www.google.com/search?q=search+everything

I typed chapter 13 into Everything on my computer and found files I haven’t thought about for a decade.

There is free software, including Everything, at https://ninite.com/
To find the word Everything on that page, hold down the Ctrl key on your keyboard and the F key, then type Everything into the Find box that appears. There so much stuff on that page that it is hard to find a program unless you use the Find box, but that is not surprising because it is even harder to find a file on a computer without using a program like Everything to find the files named, for a hypothetical example, chapter 13. . . .

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Originally posted by Brenda:

This is a new computer Second and I am retyping my book onto it. So that doesn't help. I have it in paper form but I must have mislaid that chapter and now it seems to be gone.

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:

Good luck Brenda!

If your Chapter 13 is on a hard drive, why can't you access it from your computer? I don't understand that. Is the hard drive perhaps on your laptop? Or an older computer?

But if you can access the hard drive ...

Since COVID-19, my library has a print service. Using a library card and going online, one can upload a document to the library print server. They will print it out and set it out in a manila envelope with your name on it for you to pick up.

Or perhaps you could try a place like FedEx, Office Max etc, which have print functions available?

I don't known if something like that will help, but they're a couple of suggestions.

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This is a new computer Second and I am retyping my book onto it. So that doesn't help. I have it in paper form but I must have mislaid that chapter and now it seems to be gone.

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Around Christmas in 1919, Lawrence of Arabia lost his 1,000 page manuscript for The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, forcing him to write a 400,000-word second draft. Lawrence wasn’t satisfied with it and burned it in 1922. The third draft was only shown to friends. Then that was amended based on comments.
https://lostmanuscripts.com/2010/07/11/the-seven-pillars-of-reading-st
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Stephen King wrote: "When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done."

Brenda, what better way to cut a story chapter to the bone than losing the whole thing and rewriting from memory?

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Originally posted by Brenda:
This is a new computer Second and I am retyping my book onto it. So that doesn't help. I have it in paper form but I must have mislaid that chapter and now it seems to be gone.

I thought it was on a memory stick but after checking that it isn't. The only thing I now have a copy of that chapter on is a hard disk.

I do appreciate you trying to help though.

ETA: Of course I know the title of my book but it doesn't help when I can't find the paper copy which is what I am looking for.

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Originally posted by Brenda:
This is a new computer Second and I am retyping my book onto it. So that doesn't help. I have it in paper form but I must have mislaid that chapter and now it seems to be gone.

I thought it was on a memory stick but after checking that it isn't. The only thing I now have a copy of that chapter on is a hard disk.

I do appreciate you trying to help though.

ETA: Of course I know the title of my book but it doesn't help when I can't find the paper copy which is what I am looking for.

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What hard disk is it on?

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Square and I think 3 by 5 inches.

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Square and I think 3 by 5 inches.

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I mean, it's not currently in the hard drive on your new computer, right?

Is it on a hard drive in a non-working computer? Is the hard drive pulled out of an old computer? Is the hard drive an external hard drive that you can just easily plug into the new computer?

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SOMETIMES you can pull a hard drive out of an old computer and put it into a new one, and the operating system will see it and figure out how to access it. But there are a lot of reasons why that might not work, so I'm not even going to try figuring your computer parts out, BRENDA. I just hope you find it.

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Square and I think 3 by 5 inches.

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I mean, it's not currently in the hard drive on your new computer, right?

Is it on a hard drive in a non-working computer? Is the hard drive pulled out of an old computer? Is the hard drive an external hard drive that you can just easily plug into the new computer?

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No, it is not on a hard drive on this new computer.

No, it's not. Old computer still has its hard drive in it. No, I do not have an external hard drive and I am looking into getting one.

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Square and I think 3 by 5 inches.

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I mean, it's not currently in the hard drive on your new computer, right?

Is it on a hard drive in a non-working computer? Is the hard drive pulled out of an old computer? Is the hard drive an external hard drive that you can just easily plug into the new computer?

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No, it is not on a hard drive on this new computer.

No, it's not. Old computer still has its hard drive in it. No, I do not have an external hard drive and I am looking into getting one.

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Can you boot up the old computer and pull the files off with a flash drive?

Short of that, they make products that you can attach your old hard drive to and pull the data off. A place like Best Buy might have it, but I dunno. I could order one easily online, but I know that's not an option for you.

Shame you're not around me. I could get that file off an old drive for you in about 5 minutes. :(

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:

Oh wonderful !! on getting your story in complete form!! Congratulations!

If they're offering to put it on memory stick, I'd take them up on it, as long as you label and date it.

I don't know if you're still doing any editing, but where I used to work, 'version control' was a big problem with some people. They'd make and keep multiple variations of editing of the same document, which is really easy to do on a computer. But they had no indication as to which was the most developed one, and which ones were earlier drafts that should be ignored.

Anyway - I'm so happy for you! I know you've been working on the story as it was possible to do so, and it seems like this is a big step to completing it!

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Glad you got your chapter back, Brenda.

Thumb drives are super cheap. Buy yourself 5 of them and back everything you've ever typed up 5 times so you're never worried about losing it again. Just make sure that when you write new stuff you're also backing it up somewhat regularly.

You don't need an external hard drive, unless you're going to start making movies or doing photography with a high quality digital camera. Text and Word documents are SMALL.



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Glad you got your chapter back, Brenda.

Thumb drives are super cheap. Buy yourself 5 of them and back everything you've ever typed up 5 times so you're never worried about losing it again. Just make sure that when you write new stuff you're also backing it up somewhat regularly.

You don't need an external hard drive, unless you're going to start making movies or doing photography with a high quality digital camera. Text and Word documents are SMALL.



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Me too.

I can do that for this book. But I don't have anything else that is finished. So, I won't be buying a load of them.

Nah, I will leave the disks alone. I can't use them and I think I just got lucky that they still had something that could read those disks.

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Glad you got your chapter back, Brenda.

Thumb drives are super cheap. Buy yourself 5 of them and back everything you've ever typed up 5 times so you're never worried about losing it again. Just make sure that when you write new stuff you're also backing it up somewhat regularly.

You don't need an external hard drive, unless you're going to start making movies or doing photography with a high quality digital camera. Text and Word documents are SMALL.



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Me too.

I can do that for this book. But I don't have anything else that is finished. So, I won't be buying a load of them.

Nah, I will leave the disks alone. I can't use them and I think I just got lucky that they still had something that could read those disks.

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You will never, ever fill one up to full with your writing, even if you wrote a chapter for a book every day for the rest of your life.

Buying extras is simply for redundancy sake and so you never have to worry about where your stuff went if a freak accident happens. I'd even consider giving one to somebody you trust to hold on to after you back it up.

I've had an outdated laptop my brother has me keeping for him for years now that has backups of tens of thousands of photos he's taken.

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They really are super cheap right now. At least the ones that you'd need for your writing.

I'm not even sure if you can find one easily under 8GB or 16GB anymore, but I'm seeing 16GB thumb drives advertised at WalMart right now for $4.97 each.

I'd get at least two of them for redundancy. $10 or $15 is well worth the piece of mind.

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