Here’s an ‘almost’ disaster story.
Spent the entire night working on a project that the client was picking up at 7:30 am to take with them on a business trip that morning.
About 5:30 I’m set to export the time line and I get a ‘the project is corrupted’ error message on my screen. Shutdown, reboot, couldn’t open the project file. A real sphincter moment.
I got out of my chair, on my knees on the floor curled up in a ball asking the powers of the universe ‘why me’? 10 hours of work gone in a microsecond.
Fortunately I had ‘auto save’ on, found the backup file and ended up only losing 15 minutes of editing. It reinforced my mantra of auto save, backup. Auto save, backup……….