What else would "restart later" possibly mean? Eh?
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Well, it kept coming up with the message 'Windows has finished updating but must be restarted' and I can click 'restart now' or 'restart later'. Every time I click 'restart later', like an hour after it comes up with the same message, so to keep it from restarting I had to press 'restart later' every time. I never knew the computer would decide to restart without me clicking 'restart now'. Actually, I planned on saving and truly restarting my computer when I got back from the hairdressers, but well, my computer has a mind of its own.
That's just sad... and stupid too...
My advices? Save more often, and I mean do like 15thDimension here, save every 10 minutes. Better safe than sorry right? And my other advice; get a Mac lol. A Mac would never EVER do anything without your permission.
Just my advices to you, and I sure hope you'll finish by making that song after all...
Peace,
GX3
Thanks man. I really need to get into the habit of saving more often, I mean it's only a Ctrl+S press away, but since the song I was working on had some heavy orchestration, it would take longer to save, and instead of taking only half a second to save as it usually does, it takes around 10 seconds. Oh well, as you said, better safe then sorry. I'd get a Mac, but I'm not really a fan of Macs xP. Besides, FL Studio isn't compatible with Macs :P.
Don't worry though, I remade the song (took half the time since I managed to remember most of the melodies) and I think it came out even better than before. Thanks for the support anyway :).
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Supersteph54
Rawr. I'm in your profile posting on your news.
Oh noez.
I know the feeling. But I think I can safely say that I *ALWAYS* save all my work I have open when I leave my computer. Even if it's only for dinner or something, I don't leave my pc without saving my work.
I've also made a habit of it to save when I'm about to upload a file, as my pc tends to go all BSOD on me when I do that. -.-
That and the occasional power failure here...
Hm, even I always save my work before going somewhere. I really don't know why I didn't this time. Maybe I was in a hurry, or maybe my hair was so long that it covered the space from my eye to the save button, so of course I didn't see it xD.
Anyway, weird theory over. I hope this doesn't happen again :(. Actually, the song I was talking about is Cobra, in case you're curious :P.
Excuse the double post, I did something stupid concerning the 'back' button on the side of my mouse, while the first one was being posted. :p
Hehe, excuse my second post deletion, but I did something stupid with the mouse and the 'delete comment' button at the bottom of your double post, while the first comment was being answered :p.
Out of curiosity, do you have the full East West thing or just the Starter Edition?
Full, but the Silver Edition, which is the cheapest edition :).
Save your work every 5 or 10 minutes. That's what I do.
Yeah, but I have to wait 10 seconds or so for it to save since my songs are so complicated, so I get lazy and don't want to waste 20 seconds every 5 or 10 minutes xP. Oh well, it's the only alternative :\.
Have you noticed how the time you say it takes to save it goes up every time? First you said 5 seconds, then 10, then 20. And that has happened to me. Less drastically though.
Fixed, lol. I counted, it was 8, and I rounded up to the closest 10 xD.
I commented on your newspost. Now you have to comment on mine :)
Way ahead of ya ;).
I commented on your newspost. Now you have to comment on mine :)
Comment-whore.
I don't like leaving my computer unattended with unsaved data on in because of stuff like that. Something similar happened to me when I ran Vista: an automatic update somehow deleted my Videos folder, which contained some stuff that I considered priceless as it was impossible to reliably reproduce. I nearly smashed my computer. Now I run Ubuntu, which isn't much better, but at least it doesn't do anything without my OK.
Yeah, Vista sucks :(. I wonder if Windows 7 misbehaves :O.
I really don't know what got into me: to go to the hairdressers without saving. Well, I was in a rush, but not enough to make me not have any time to even hit 'Ctrl+S'.
Now I turned off Automatic Updates anyway. I felt like shouting out 'In Your Face!' to the monitor when I switched off the Automatic Updates xD. Besides, all the Automatic Updates do is slow my computer down, since my OS isn't genuine (when we bought it we were ripped off by the typical service you see here in my country -.-) and so the updates won't be able update anything :(. But still, better to have no updates than updates which don't work :\.
There is actually a few registry entries you can change to make it so Windows won't restart automatically. You should google it if you don't want this to happen again ;0
I took away the updates, they shall never bother me again.
...unless of course Windows gets a mind of its own again and gets them back.
Windows blows stupidity out of every hole.
Agreed.
15thDimension
good gosh. maybe you should save more often. Sometimes i get paranoid and save like every 10 minutes.
not that that helps me much more then just occasionally saving...
Step (Updated )
Lol, yeah. I managed to recover what I lost after a few hours, but there were some things in the original which were better than the things in my new one. Oh well. I would save more, but that particular song I was working on was the most CPU-intensive ever (just to hear it I had to export the whole thing every time) so to save it took around 10 seconds, and, well, I'm not that patient :P.