11-21-2020, 10:22 PM
Well. I have become sufficiently salty.
On November 12 after I put my laptop to sleep, Windows decided 2:37am would be the perfect time to initiate a forced restart after installing an OS update. This restart also triggered restarting MS Edge Dev to process ITS update from v87 to v88. Normally, when Edge restarts either the previous session is restored or a popup saying the browser closed unexpectedly and offering a button to restore the session; neither of those happened here and I lost all my previously opened windows. The session file itself was somehow still around and not yet auto-deleted by the browser, so windows and their tabs are recoverable once I finalize converting the Python based "Chromagnon" project to JavaScript to run in a browser.
Unfortunately all my browser local storage was also lost. This included data I was using to test a browser bookmark organizer script, but more importantly the data of my journal for my journal script that I've been working on.
This was quite unforeseen and I have lost three months of daily journal data because of it. I didn't even remember that I had marked day 1 of this stage 3 here on the forums until just now, and after calculating realize I've apparently played stage 3 for 3 extra days now. Losing this journal data was a huge emotional blow to me this time, though, because while previous journals that were lost due to technology snafus were somewhat recoverable and had purpose (mostly only journaling) this journal had a purpose beyond being just a journal and so far has not been recoverable. The script remains because it's just an HTML file with some JavaScript in it, but the actual written data is gone and I didn't have any copies of it outside of what was saved into the browser's local storage.
I just wanted to have my journal in a state where I could actually run statistical analysis on it. I'm sad and this is exactly the kind of not-in-my-immediate-control bullshit that feeds into feelings of futility and pointlessness.
On November 12 after I put my laptop to sleep, Windows decided 2:37am would be the perfect time to initiate a forced restart after installing an OS update. This restart also triggered restarting MS Edge Dev to process ITS update from v87 to v88. Normally, when Edge restarts either the previous session is restored or a popup saying the browser closed unexpectedly and offering a button to restore the session; neither of those happened here and I lost all my previously opened windows. The session file itself was somehow still around and not yet auto-deleted by the browser, so windows and their tabs are recoverable once I finalize converting the Python based "Chromagnon" project to JavaScript to run in a browser.
Unfortunately all my browser local storage was also lost. This included data I was using to test a browser bookmark organizer script, but more importantly the data of my journal for my journal script that I've been working on.
This was quite unforeseen and I have lost three months of daily journal data because of it. I didn't even remember that I had marked day 1 of this stage 3 here on the forums until just now, and after calculating realize I've apparently played stage 3 for 3 extra days now. Losing this journal data was a huge emotional blow to me this time, though, because while previous journals that were lost due to technology snafus were somewhat recoverable and had purpose (mostly only journaling) this journal had a purpose beyond being just a journal and so far has not been recoverable. The script remains because it's just an HTML file with some JavaScript in it, but the actual written data is gone and I didn't have any copies of it outside of what was saved into the browser's local storage.
I just wanted to have my journal in a state where I could actually run statistical analysis on it. I'm sad and this is exactly the kind of not-in-my-immediate-control bullshit that feeds into feelings of futility and pointlessness.
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