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/plotikai Feb 27 '26

We learned this in high school when autosave wasn’t a thing. ALWAYS SAVE and ALWAYS HAVE A BACKUP. This is a hard lesson to learn but I had to learn how to use git and setup a robust backup solution, using openclaw has made it so much easier but stories like this make me glad I spent so much time making sure everything is backed up multiple times over with a clear rollback plan

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u/JazzlikeProject6274 Feb 27 '26

I need to do this. I have felt overwhelmed every time I have looked at the possibility. Any recommendations on where to get started learning?

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u/JazzlikeProject6274 Mar 03 '26

So true. Thank you for the reminder!