( Weather )

Endgame revisions continue. Close to 3500 words today, mostly new stuff with some old tucked in. Not done with this chapter yet, but I may leave it until morning. I'll spend the morning writing, and the afternoon clearing my driveway.

( revisions )

And now a snippet, featuring Niall Pierce, former smuggler:

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MacWord just gave me a scare. As you know. Bob, I am in the middle of revisions, which means that I have multiple files open at one time, and I'm doing a lot of Search/Replace and saving a lot. I made some changes to a chapter, then tried to save it only to find that the chapter had been renamed with a 4-digit designator (and some text I can't recall) and that I could not save it due to permission issues. I tried with another file, and couldn't save that to either the hard drive or the flash drive. When I changed the file to rtf, I could save it.

Other weirdness: all the files vanished from the folder for this iteration Endgame, and for a couple of other folders. This disappearance only occurred when I tried to open the files via Word--when I checked the folders in Finder, all the files were there. I was therefore able to cut/paste some files into the flash drive folder and save my work. I then shut down Word. Checked Macaroni, and found that the Repair Permissions program had run yesterday. I went ahead and ran it again.

Opened up Word again, and all the files were there.

This has never happened before. I had activated Autosave after Word crashed on me last week--I deactivated it since I've heard that the autosave functions can get gummy.

My iBook is almost 3 years old--do these things have an expiration date?