ah man, that's worse than "my dog ate my homework" sux!

Yes save frequently. I had something similar happen to me at college - someone accidently hit the "emergency off" switch that powers off all the monitors... and apparently the computer tower I was using was plugged into that circuit.... 2 hours of work down the drain. I'd been saving the work to the desktop, but the computers were programmed to wipe out all changed data upon logging off or rebooting... after that, I made a point of working only off a thumb drive, using frequent saves.

Gotta remember to keep saving that shit, bra!

FYL, but i also have to say YDI because you didn't save. i hit the save button after like every little change lol.

that's why you should get a mac the power button is on the back of the monitor so no button to be pushed by your careless dog

that sucks, I've had that happen to me but my nephews were the one to push the button you need to save very often or use Microsoft word, they auto save it for you.

These days the newest versions have the recovery option. It temporarily saves your file so you can retrieve it...hope you were in such luck.

The exact same thing happened to me two weeks ago. I was editing a music video i was making for my broadcast/journalism class and it had already been extremely stressful and i had already had one emotional breakdown over it. So as i was getting everything under control my dog gets under my computer desk and laid directly on the power strip disconnecting everything. I was thankful for the auto save every ten minutes on movie maker

Dude i feel you that happened to me twice!

YDI big time.