Post by @androidarts@mastodon.gamedev.place

@androidarts@mastodon.gamedev.place

2026-05-02 09:27 UTC

Sigh. Put my laptop to sleep, realizing 1 second later that I hadn&#39;t saved the last 2 hours of work in my text document. Linux Mint has like a 1% chance of not waking up after sleep and of course it does it this time. Document gone. Documents gone, as I had tabs open. Wouldn&#39;t happen in Mac Textedit that autosaves. Should I attempt to reconstruct, or just abandon the project altogether? Edit: Abandon. I really hate trying and failing to redo difficult to remember work.

Replies (5)

@aetios@sns.minovsky.space 2026-05-02 09:30

@androidarts@mastodon.gamedev.place Shit, that sucks. No document recovery either? Saved me a lot in the past...

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@playmedusa@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-05-02 09:35

@androidarts@mastodon.gamedev.place have you tried entering console mode (CRT alt F1) to kill the visual environment and relaunch it?

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@yora@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-05-02 09:41

@androidarts@mastodon.gamedev.place It shouldn't take more than 2 hours to redo 2 hours of work. It would have to be a really unimportant project for that not to be worth it.

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@rifter@mastodon.social 2026-05-02 10:00

@androidarts@mastodon.gamedev.place If your tools can't be trusted :aaaa:

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@JoshuaACNewman@xeno.glyphpress.com 2026-05-02 14:21

@androidarts@mastodon.gamedev.place That’s an awful experience. That I’ve had so many times. Adobe InDesign has a bug where sometimes it quietly starts refusing to save. You don’t even know until you open the document back up. And then you have to copy the document over to a new one because that document will never save again. In Linux, I use Joplin for writing, in part because it autosaves to Dropbox (with other cloud options). It also has thought-organizing features, a bit like BBEdit, but deeper.

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