Fools and their pointers

I pulled a good one the other day, I had finished a biography about my vast knowledge of writing and saved it as, save as. Not such a bad idea, however my pointer hovered too long over another story title where upon that title was automatically picked up in the save window line and I clicked save without checking the wording. I still do not know why I did not use save as I generally do. Yes I replaced the story I had finished with another one, even the Do you want to replace the contents of the file with this one... I clicked yes. There was no backup! Live and...