Suggestions very much appreciated, grrrr!

[chanter1944]

Anybody got a suggestion on how to roll back changes to a wordpad document you accidentally deleted a chunk of? I thought not saving changes would sort things, but evidently that isn't the case. I am not. happy. :(

No, I don't have a damnable backup. That would make too much sense.

Edited to add: I've been able to retrieve the most important bits of what I lost, thanks to having sent them to friends. I'm in the process of recreating the rest.

I'm also on the hunt for a word processor application that has a better backup feature than wordpad, doesn't stink for accessibility (looking at you, Libre Office), and doesn't have Google tentacles in it.

Comments

[sixbeforelunch]

No advice, I'm afraid, but all the sympathy. Losing work like that sucks. :(

[kengr]

Well, if you haven't closed it yet you could try ctrl-Z. But be careful, if you hit it one too many times There's not a "undo the undo" command.

Otherwise for the future check and see if Wordpad has a "make backup copies of the file every so often" option.

[alexseanchai]

I am informed that Scrivener plays particularly poorly with screenreader software, which means I have possibly zero recommendations. Possibly one: I do not know enough about CryptPad to know whether it might meet your needs, but I do know it keeps being recced to me as the alternative to Google Docs for privacy-conscious people.

[stealthsystem]

Okay. This isn't exactly a text-editor. It's meant to write code in, but it will let you write text to. You just need to tweak a setting so it stops putting line numbers in front of your lines.
It's called Notepad++