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Jesus Saves... Early and often.
Phrase from the early 90's, when saving was often to a floppy, and systems were nowhere near as stable as today.
Control-S is your friend.
Unless you save too often and the file was in the middle of saving or loading something and the file corrupts. :)
I've never seen that, and not sure how any system could be so badly designed to permit this.
And I've been using systems since DOS 1.1 (and punched cards before that).
Unless i'm wrong and the files got corrupted because of something else, it happened to me in the 3D software Sketchup, in indesign, illustrator and acrobat. Acrobat is by far the worst offender. PDFs are just unstable messes in general when trying to work on them.
That happened to me with a word 2011 version. I sent my work file for corrections to my companion, we sat together and worked together through the errors. Several hours later, we saved, and immediatly closed the window. BAM! corrupted file. That was not a good day. We all love microsoft right?
I had a computer lab teacher in the 90's that was known to tell really long stories, it could be a joke or a shaggy dog depending on his mood, but you wouldn't know until the end. "Jesus saves" was the punchline to one related to computers. I haven't thought about him years. Thanks for the reminder.
I think you're seriously overestimating modern stability.
I don't think it's a question that modern systems are more stable; any belief otherwise is just pure nostalgia (or someone who wasn't actually working on computers in the early 90's). Plus, the advent of autosave truly was a game-changer.
I've been working with computers since the '80s, thanks.
Autosave is surely the best thing since sliced bread, achievable thanks to ample and cheap data storage, but that's only such a godsend because instability is still an issue. We might have better recovery methods now, but the exponentially increasing complexity of everything introduces weak points as quickly as we can spackle over old ones.