The Family Girl Blogs (aka "The New Working Girl Blogs") Blog #78: Aaargh!!! or Thank God for Backup Files. To see all of Bobbie's Family Girl Blogs, click on this link: http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/book/28818/family-girl-blogs

In my previous post, I said that I would be posting my Transformers Revisited story at 5PM.

So, I did post it. Seven hours late…

First thing I have to say is that I’m sorry. I cannot apologise enough. My computer got infected by a virus, and trashed my latest files.

Thank goodness it didn’t attack the file allocation table of my computer’s drive, but it did start to individually mess up my files. It started with my latest modified files but my systems caught the offending virus and only twenty of my files got trashed.

But, unfortunately, my file with the story, “Transformers Revisited” was hit. Totally unrecoverable.

However, I do have backups of my files. The thing was, my backup was a couple of weeks out of date.

Since I wasn’t using a mirror backup system, I practice what’s usually called a backup rotation scheme, which is to say, I save a version of my file periodically, but not every time I edit. So, my backups are not current.

So I started rewriting and rebuilding my story since I found it trashed at around four PM EST. I only finished rebuilding it around eleven, and was able to post it at around 11:30PM.

Whew…

Apologies, too, if the grammar is less than perfect - it’s from an older version of my story, after all. lol. So, as usual, please do let me know of any grammar or spelling errors you spot via a PM instead of a public comment, and I'll fix 'em up asap.

Anyway, you guys have until June 7 to click the Kudos button. (Heehee. Wink wink, hint hint lol) Here's the link:

Transformers Revisited

Oh, by the way, here’s a tip about the story: the POV of the story changes per chapter. That is to say, the one narrating in each chapter changes. In order to know who’s doing the narrating, the name of the narrator is in the chapter title.

So, there you go. Apologies again. and please vote for my story with Kudos Clicks!

Byeeeee!

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