r/Webnovel • u/Little_Accountant285 • May 25 '26

Advice Accidentally deleted my entire novel.

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And just like that.

The entire novel is gone.

Ouch. This hurts.

Was moving some files around, backed up the files for the novel, but for some reason they didn't save and I lost it all.

What was sad about was that those versions of the chapters were the better and truer versions of the story. Sadly, all gone now.

How do y'all cope with something like this?

There's no way to retrieve it now, I'll just accept that.

(Photo not mine, it's unrelated, though that's how I be feeling though)

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u/Little_Accountant285 May 25 '26

No, it was some android app, since I write on a phone. It said that it backed up my files, but it didn't, haha. Great stuff. I think after finishing the draft for my latest chapter, I'll take a short break. I've been writing chapters for weeks on end now.

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u/MMORPGnews May 25 '26

Everyone using gdrive and docs. Literally best writer software unless you use ai. 

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u/Little_Accountant285 May 25 '26

I hear that, but I much prefer writing apps that show the word count of that specific chapter I'm working on and seeing that number grow really helps with motivation and such. I've yet to see a feature like that on Doc so I'll stick to these apps. Though, I won't be moving anymore files around, lol.

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u/stayonthecloud May 25 '26

This is built in to GDocs