[fredrikholm]

> but the 127 pages of a product manual I had been writing the last week were gone without backup.

This hurts just reading it. How'd it go in the end?

[q87b]

> I came across the drive again while fetching some peas from the freezer a few weeks later. Gave it another try, and lo and behold, it worked!

[actionfromafar]

By then the deadline could’ve flown by.

[PeterStuer]

Rewrote the manual from scratch I'm afraid. Second time went faster ofc. Still, a lott of needless double work.