r/claude • u/blindexhibitionist • Feb 27 '26

Tips Finally Happened

So i hadnt seen anything on here posting about this so i wanted to make sure that people knew. I was working on a project trying to simplify a process that im working on as a database with a form that would talk back to it after search. Well we finally got the end and i downloaded the file. well i decided to ask one more question and the whole window disappeared along with the gs code. gone. hours of work gone. i havent been able to get back to where i was and now its pulling teeth to describe where we were etc. in the future ill definitly immediatly download the file and its a good learning lesson but good lord it was so insanely frustrating.

Edit: so I hadn’t turned memory on because I assumed that it automatically was just a feature. Also I got a GitHub account and also learned about cowork and I set up a file on my desktop.

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u/covilans Mar 01 '26

In your development lifecycle process for Claude always request full backups. I have 4tb drive right now full of backups because I refuse to lose stuff.

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u/blindexhibitionist Mar 01 '26

Are these just md files you ask for during sessions and then in cowork have them save to a projects file? Or what’s your workflow?

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u/covilans Mar 01 '26

Expressive should always as well be a duplicate function that does cross verification.

So you are writing a large query change.

/** Change request **/ - /Claude duplicate files and follow reverification process.

This reduces function loss..

I need to write a full article

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u/blindexhibitionist Mar 01 '26

That totally makes sense