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What program? What OS? Did you open an existing file or create one from new? We really need more information to offer you any help.

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I'm not a Mac person, so I do not know about Mac foibles. You say that you saved the file periodically. Were these to the thumb drive or the hard disk? Do these intermediate files still exist?

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CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630

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1 hour ago, Fixx said:

Using a thumb drive as work drive is bad idea to begin with, they are slow and not very trustworthy.

Using any kind of networked storage directly is a bad idea in general and with the Affinity apps in particular, because of the potential consequences of even a brief break in the connection. It’s much safer to use a local fixed drive as working storage and then transfer the document on completion.

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4 hours ago, αℓƒяє∂ said:

Using any kind of networked storage directly is a bad idea in general and with the Affinity apps in particular, because of the potential consequences of even a brief break in the connection. It’s much safer to use a local fixed drive as working storage and then transfer the document on completion.

USB thumb drives aren't networked storage but like @Fixx said, they are slow & not all that reliable, particularly as they age & are repeatedly written to.

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1 hour ago, R C-R said:

USB thumb drives aren't networked storage

My bad. I should have said “remote or removable”.

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20 minutes ago, αℓƒяє∂ said:

My bad. I should have said “remote or removable”.

Even that may not cover all the (relatively) safe possibilities since technically any external locally-connected drive is removable & could become disconnected. At least for Macs, that includes booting from an external drive over a high speed connection like USB 3 or Thunderbolt. Some users do that for example so they can run different versions of the Mac OS on the same Mac or the same version configured differently without changes to one boot drive affecting the other(s).

Admittedly, that is an edge case but one that isn't is running a Mac with a relatively small internal SSD with little available room for storing large document files, even temporarily.

With all that in mind, I think the best advise is to avoid using anything unreliable for working storage, which would include thumb drives & any other external storage device if the connection isn't stable.

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I have one of the older Airport Time Capsules with a 3TB HDD, I got it from a customer who'd replaced it with the newer tower time capsules.

I repaired it by cooking the circuit board it in the oven for a while; they had a dry joint issue, anyway it worked and is running well a year after I cooked it.

I also find MEGA a good cloud backup option in addition to other backup options. 

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