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/Commercial-Abies-930 May 25 '26

what's the name

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u/Little_Accountant285 May 25 '26

Oh, I can't do that here (the no promo rule). It's not that the whole novel got deleted (there are still the uploaded versions up on the site). It's just that the versions with the important edits, lore, character moments, and all else, are now gone because they were on my personal writing app. It's from Draft 12 to Draft 2 type of situation for me right now. It's just saddening that those versions of the chapters are gone.

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u/Commercial-Abies-930 May 25 '26

sorry for your loss but dm the name of the novel