Argh, Don't do THIS! ;)
This post is just a quick reminder so the same doesn't happen to you that just happened to me! :D
I just spent 40 minutes recording 2 YouTube videos to my channel.
After that I noticed that during that whole time my microphone was OFF and only the laptop's mic was recording that has a completely awful sound quality.
Before recording I quickly checked the microphone and I was like, "Yeah, there's some sound. Should be working!" But I didn't bother to check which mic it is.
So, please, don't do the same mistake! Always remember to DOUBLE-CHECK that the right mic is recording when you are doing YouTube videos.
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Another "mistake" that I made before a couple of times was that I had written a text and I was supposed to copy-paste it to another place on my computer.
Instead of pushing CTRL + C (=copy), I pushed CTRL + X (=cut). Then I got distracted and copied also some other text.
When I was about to paste the original text, it had disappeared into the cyber-space and I had lost it.
Howver, after repeating the same mistake probably 3-5 times, I think I have finally learned that it's better to use CTRL + C instead of CTRL + X always when copying the text.
Very simple things, of course, but you don't want to waste 30 minutes writing something and then losing the text.
Also, a good way to avoid losing any text is to always type in some cloud like Google Docs, Wealthy Affiliate or Wordpress that auto-saves it.
If you are not connected to the Internet and you have written a long text, you can save it to 2 places so if you accidenatelly delete the other one, at least the other one remains (Again, I speak from experience of losing a text when I saved it only in 1 place and deleted it accidenatelly, LOL!)
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That's all for today. Just a quick reminder. :)
Would be fun to hear from you.
Have you ever lost some text / video / other work? How?
=> How do you prevent that it doesn't happen again?
Let us know in the comments below!
Looking forward to hearing from you!
Cheers
Roope "Don't lose your work" Kiuttu
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Great words of advice! I’ve actually had both of those things happen to me too! Very frustrating ... Now I use Google Dics for my draft... then I have a backup. LOL
We feel for you, Roope, but we are sure most of your readers will have experienced something similar on more than one occasion. Autosave is a real boon.
Colette and Philip
Yep! After I repeated the same mistake a couple of times, I was like, "Hmmm... There must be a way to avoid making this same mistake again!" Lol
I remember writing a long piece of text and then there was an electricity blackout. And Office complained about how it cannot recover file. Cool!
Ouch! That's why I'd always recommend wrtiting in a cloud online that saves the text automatically.
Argh, how can you make these 2 mistakes!!
Lol, thanks for sharing this post on taking care of smaller things while doing bigger tasks. 🙂
Akshay
Great ideas and advice that is so sad when it bleeps. It happens to me sometimes too but I do not know all the command prompts via touch screen as there are no control buttons, so I just hold down for the menu. I still have done that on touch screen and made me want to screech like your model in the picture. It is frustrating losing your work. My Lilah helped me make a screamcast on it. Lol!! Good words of advice. I thank you very much.
Kind Regards,
Nurse Becca
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OMG Roope, the same thing happened to me the first time I wrote my first blog, it was so frustrating. I learned my lesson and now I type out the draft in MS Word and save it before I make any edits. Every couple of times I make a few edits, I do Ctrl-S to save the file once I've named it. Now, I just copy and paste it when needed. Thank you also for the info regarding the microphone. Getting ready to do my first couple of videos and I will remember your advice. Hope you are well. 😊
That's good! :) Even better is probably Google Docs because it saves the text automatically time after time.
Will remember. Thank you.