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[SolsticeZero]

I use Google Drive for all of my stuff. If I absolutely need to use Office, I make sure to save it often in my Dropbox for autosync

 

[LogicStep]

Spam that quick save man.

 

[chickdigger802]

I'm a programmer.

Ctrl+S is what I do.

indeed.

my work hp laptop is shit doesn't help. sleep mode fucks up like 20% of the time and require a battery power cycle.

 

[Tarsul]

i had a weird situation with my bachelor thesis on the last day: I saved a lot with clicking the floppy icon but when i was in the folder i noticed that the date of my file didn't change while doing that. Luckily I had the file still open and thus saved with "save file as" otherwise it could have ended badly.

Very weird and didn't help my hatred of MS Word.

 

[Koomaster]

I used to e-mail things to myself to make sure. Like if I made a lot of progress on something, I would e-mail a copy to myself.

 

[Aesius]

Most I've lost is about an hours worth of work.

My freshman year English professor said she lost about 50 pages of her thesis when her hard drive crashed. It happened in the late 90s before backups were as commonplace.

 

[Burger]

There is no difference between OS, both have been doing it for a while now.

I wouldn't know, I only really use my Windows PC for gaming.

 

[Extra Sauce]

Never save important documents to your local drive. Use cloud storage from the moment you create the file.

 

[jwk94]

I've lost half a page of work before. My stuff is always in the cloud.

 

[Red Comet]

I'm sort of OCD when I'm working in any computer program and I tend to save every 5 minutes, so this has never been a problem for me.

 

[Suikoguy]

I write all my university work in Google Docs. Although if I have to do Table Of Contents or anything I copy it into Word and do it there, the ToC in Docs is a bit lacking. I also wish it had Word's system for keeping track of references.

Yeah, those are a couple of the missing things from Google docs that it needs for College use. And, a more advanced grammar checker.

The presentation google app, on the other hand, is more then adequate and replaces power point quite effectively. In some ways I found it easier and quicker to use, especially to make simple graphics and flowcharts.

The collaboration functions make it easier to overlook the shortcomings.

Excel, conversely... Microsoft should hope nobody catches up, it's their bread and butter at this point.

Glad College is over though. Group projects