They worked on it for six hours and then emailed to suggest we try the exact same "solution" to unlocking the file that failed this morning. - ThreadSky

kevinmkruse.bsky.social • 35 days ago

They worked on it for six hours and then emailed to suggest we try the exact same "solution" to unlocking the file that failed this morning.

Reposted from Kevin M. Kruse

Publisher: You have seven days to check the copy edits on this book!

Also publisher: It’ll take us two days to unlock the Word file we sent you

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blancheneigeesq90.bsky.social•35 days ago

Did they try unplugging themselves and then plugging themselves back in?

drewkadel.bsky.social•35 days ago

That's what took six hours.

hiattb.bsky.social•35 days ago

Hopefully they didn’t remove every contraction in the entire book as a British publisher’s copy editor attempted with me once

lifeofomar.bsky.social•35 days ago

"try clicking on it now" is tried and true tech advice

bcnjake.bsky.social•35 days ago

Sounds like some geniuses from the Department of General Editing.

deanwalsh.bsky.social•35 days ago

Did it work?

leslyejoyallen.bsky.social•35 days ago

Be careful. I just had a Brooklyn based company try to charge me 0.01 cents and my bank actually caught it as fraud. Then my bank reissued me a new debit card to the WRONG mailing address.

drewfolkestad.bsky.social•35 days ago

My common reply is “Have you tried rebooting your computer?”

psclazzac.bsky.social•35 days ago

My IP provider techfail-washes this as "power cycling".

kevinmkruse.bsky.social•35 days ago

Well, there's one trade press I'll never work with again.

Good times, good times.

jbminn.bsky.social•35 days ago

have you tried cussing like a baker?

prosediva.bsky.social•35 days ago

Is it a password issue?

daddyroundround.bsky.social•35 days ago

Did you try unplugging them and plugging them back in again?

grooveholmes.bsky.social•35 days ago

Escape Room Press? A real pain.

katlu92.bsky.social•35 days ago

Lean times.

isaac32767.picknit.com•35 days ago

Is this a word file? If so, I know how to bypass the lock.

drdougthompson.bsky.social•35 days ago

We are so use to tech failing and yet we keep relying on it for everything. Talk about creating consumer mentalities. Hope the file unlocks at some point.

raoul51.bsky.social•35 days ago

Another reason why I use LibreOffice.

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