While drawing on Samsung Notes, an unknown button press made my entire 3hr+ of work disappear

[Yori1]

I was drawing on samsung notes on my Note 8 normally and after pressing on some button, or some order of buttons, my note/drawing completely disappeared. The only thing i remember pressing is the undo button. I also desperately searched online for a solution/reason/location where notes are stored and found no answers before i finally resorted to making an account and posting here.

If anyone could help me out i would be eternally grateful.

 

[Almeuit]

Hopefully a Samsung person can chime in.

I just wanted to say -- Always save your work as you go. Especially something that long. This goes on a phone or PC or anything... you never know what could happen!

 

[Rukbat]

If you didn't save the note, it was in RAM, and there's no way to get it back. As Almeuit said, save your work periodically from now on (like every 5 minutes).

 

[toenail_flicker]

REALLY sorry to hear. I know your frustration. back when there were only 5 1/4" dual floppies and no HDs at all, I wrote an entire university paper on a new pc my roommate had built. with no knowledge, like you, when I was finished I asked my roommate to save it for me. guess what he did??? he hit delete instead of save.

from that moment forward I have been obsessive about backups and backups of backups. when my server died recently it saved me. I do three backups normally for all my important stuff so I never lose all of it again.

 

[Yori1]

Alright then..thanks guys