One week before graduation, my computer crashed and "lost" the completed draft of my thesis that I was working on at the time! Thankfully I had saved drafts as a went along under different file names and saved edited drafts that I had received back from friends. The damage at the end was about 5 pages that I had to re-write and all of the final editing. But I was able to turn it in on time and graduate!
Lesson Learned: Save drafts of all steps!
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I have never had anything like that happen thanks to my dad. When my dad was writing his dissertation the computer would commonly crash (the fact that my siblings and I were very young and weren't kind to the computer just might have had something to do with it). The first time this happened, he lost something like 7 weeks or work. I grew up always backing things up.
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