i feel stupid, can someone help me?

Question

ok well, i just finished writing a paper i kind of needed for school. for some reason or another, i got off subject while taking a myspace survey and ended up writing it there. so then i thought, to heck with this i don't need a survey for my paper so i just copied the paper part. well, turns out my computer is old and a piece of crap so it immediately "forgot" that i copied the paper when i exed out of the window and it won't let me paste it anywhere. is there anything i can do to get the paper back? i haven't copied anything since.

Answer 1

Are you able to go back to the myspace survey? That may be one way to find the information and then copy it to a Word document. Doubtful but worth a try.

Answer 2

While several other's answered already, and they are all correct in how they responded, I wish to answer your calling yourself "stupid", OK?

Just because you made an easy and simple mistake to make using a computer isn't a good enough reason to refer to yourself in such a harshly negative manner.

We all make mistakes, and we all learn from those mistakes. It does not do any of us any good to be so hard on ourselves, just learn from it and move on. We have enough people in the world who are going to hard on us and abuse us, without our doing it for them.

Now, sometimes certain apps require an enabling of the Copy/Save feature. Some website do not allow any such actions. Most have good reasons for doing this, usually to stop people from taking work that doesn't belong to them. Usually copywritten materials. I am not saying that is the case here, only that this may not be any mistake of yours, but rather a setting that the webmaster has initiated to prevent Copy/Past actions.

I agree with the individual who said to go back to the MySpace site you were at, and see if you can Copy/Paste. If it still will not copy into your Clipboard then there is a setting at that site preventing the action. I had to enable the action for my Hotmail account to copy my emails to my hard drive. I have been in other areas which might allow a copy action, but not a cut action. It all depends upon the webmasters settings.

Try opening your Clipboard and see if you can locate an entry. The Clipboard is not an actual program, it is simply a place in RAM which temporarily holds items you wish to copy from or paste too while your system is turned on. If you do not turn your system off, but rather place it into Standby or Hibernation, the items will stay in RAM.

I hope you find it again, and when you do you are able to do what you were attempting. There is so much frustration when you work hard on something, only to discover you can't actually remove it and place it somewhere else.

If it turns out that you can't do the Copy/Paste action, then attempt to rewrite or retype it while you have your word application open. I understand the frustration of having to do it the old fashioned way, but it is still preferable to having to start completely from scratch.

Good luck and much success with your paper. Please have a good evening.

Answer 3

go to your web history and try to bring the page back sometimes it keeps all text that was written in there..if that can't be done do Ctrl+V that should paste it...Are you suure you clicked copy? Because if you did Ctrl+V should def work. Good luck That really sucks I hope you can get it back.

Answer 4

If You didn't save the paper, or your computer doesn't have a memory, for it to remember, then your out of luck.
Im very sorry

Answer 5

Internet explorer, View menu, History, then in the history tab, click the site. It probably will not be there, but it is worth a try.

Answer 6

yikes
try ctrl+v
for some reason that works when right click +paste doesn't
otherwise, uh i think you will be rewriting that paper.

Answer 7

if it wasnt saved it was only in ram and never got written to the harddrive ... im thinking ur sol ..