A bit of bad luck....

I hate Auto save!!! I spent hours writing the other night. I was inspired and just couldn't stop. My buddy wanted to help me revise it. So i highlighted it all and hit the shortcut keys to copy. Well the whole damn thing vanished!!!! How the hell does that happen? By the time i could figure out what happend the damn thing auto saved over everything and the page was blank. I tried everything that i could to retrieve it. Obviously it was futile!! If anyone has a pointer to prevent this please clue me in!! Thanks everyone for reading! stay tuned! I have 4 days off this weekend. thank you MLK. so i will be sure to post when i get my homework done!!