Unortunate Delays · 2:55am Nov 8th, 2016
Got myself a new laptop the other day, since this one's not doing all that well despite only being a few months old. It's missing keystokes when I type at anything faster than one per second, which is why the last few chapters of Hive haven't been up to the usual quality.
Everything seemed fine for the first few hours, it worked great, keyboard was a pleasure to use, so I started transferring all my stuff over in preperation for a few days spent catching up on my fics.
Long story short, literally everything from Wasteland Bouquet and Hive was on it when things went wrong. And by wrong, I mean the thing stopped working. Completely. Wouldn't even boot up so I could get my stuff back. I think it was an issue with the monitor. Anyway, instead of spending the week writing, I'm waiting for it to be repaired and shipped back so I can actually use it. And, with any luck, I won't have actually lost anything... or much, anyway.
I was going to drop the translated version of Blackhoof's Journal here to make up for the delay, but that was saved with the stuff I couldn't get to.
Sorry, guys! It'll be a few days, maybe a week, before I can get back to bringing you more Hive and WB!
Ooh, really sorry about that! Not pleasant when that sort of thing happens; good luck.
My own laptop recently (matter of weeks) had an "I can't find my boot disk" problem. Fortunately, I'd had that once before and immediately suspected the hard drive cable; a borrowed SATA/USB adaptor and laptop let me access my hard drive and confirm that the data on it was fine, and an express order from iFixit had my laptop working again before the end of the week. Looking back, I think that it's been about as long since the previous hard drive cable replacement as that was after I bought the computer, too.
Still, until I'd actually gotten the new cable in and the computer tested, it wasn't certain that the problem wasn't something much, and I've had computer problems in the past that I didn't have nearly so much reassurance on.
Computer troubles are the worst. Might be worthwhile to drop a bit of money on a portable external hard drive that you can back up your data on every now and then. Hope everything works out for you!
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After spending a while on the phone to the technicians today, it sounds like it was just a faulty RAM chip and, with some luck, I should have it back in the next few days without losing anything.
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Ah, very good to hear! Hopefully you do get that luck. :)
It's ok dear, I'm sorry to hear your laptop was being such a shite to ya though. I'm still about, stalking fimfiction from the shadows in my free time. Here's hoping you don't lose any progress, or anything else important to ya!
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Even better, I don't think I'm missing anything!
I finally got my new laptop back, and it looks like it's fixed!
Just gotta get used to using it and I'll try to have the next chapter of WB out this week.
...and back up all my stuff for writing to my old laptop, of course. Just to make sure this never happens again.
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Ah, excellent! Glad to hear it, and good luck. :)
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That's wonderful, dear! I look forward to the next chapter, and do, take care!