Lesson Learned: Double Check Your Backups

Let me share with you a lesson that I learned today. Please, take my advice, and don’t do what I just did… ever. It feels as dumb as it really is.

As some of you know, I am working on an eBook called ‘Building a Great App for webOS‘. It’s been coming along well, and this week I was supposed to have it close to completion. I’ve been using my Palm Pre Plus (and an app called Scratch) to write the book, since I can take it to a coffee shop with me and work pretty efficiently on it.

Everything was going perfectly, until I decided to switch back to my other Palm Pre on Sprint to send the Plus to some friends in New York. Obviously, switching profiles on your Pre does a reset of the other device, and all of my data was erased. Including the entirety of the eBook which I had assumed I had imported into Google Docs befre doing the reset.

It was a dumb mistake, and one that’s going to cost me even more time (and money). Looks like it’s gonna be a few days late from being completed.

I suppose on the bright side, though, I’ll be able to write the entire book even better now. And now you know to always double check your backups, too.