Peeking into the rock

Every once in a blue moon whatever word processing program I'm on gets angsty and starts telling me that it "didn't exit normally the last time it closed," i.e., it crashed -- when it didn't, actually, and in fact it not only hasn't crashed recently, it hasn't closed since the last time I saved it, and I have saved it only sentences ago: and when it does that, I ought to remember that what has actually happened is that the program has gione on a bender and it now thinks that the last several hundred words of already saved writing is new and unsaved material that is is free to jettison as soon as I tell it to shut up and get back to work. I guess what I need to do is not to either tell it to stop bugging me about Document 4, or to tell it to save Document 4 with a new name, but to quick like a bunny copy everything I have on my screen and save it to a new file. Or something.

Ah well, I didn't like the ending to the hundred years after story anyway. So I guess it's all right.

edit: I didn't lose anything this time, after all: I was looking at the unecessary backup file: the main file was completely intact.

Now I have to move the edits I made in the unnecessary backup file into the main file where they belong.