Major Loss

LancerSolurus

**Just wanted to let the community know that I will not be releasing any more FL tools. Unfortunately I had a major HD crash. This drive is where I had all of my FL source code on it including the open source FLEC program I was working on. I do have backups but it is from several months ago. The source on those files is quite out of date.

So as it stands now I won’t be trying to recreate any of those programs, I’m afraid it is up to those left to build on what I have written.

LS**

DwnUndr

Ouch.

Thanks for all the work that you did.

w0dk4

SHIT! Im sorry for you, that really sucks. making some backups

Anyways, here you see an awesome reason for going open source, previous work is never lost

FriendlyFire

Damn, now that’s a serious blow. I’m deeply sorry to hear this… Is GE safe at least? $:-\$

And yeah, backups backups backups. I’m slapping myself at the moment since my comp is again off for repairs since it seems the HDD broke down and I’m fearing I might’ve lost some data, so yeah… BACKUP!

Mini_Me

Very sorry to hear of this LS. Â I know exactly how you feel m8, have lost years of graphics work and programs before when my old SCSI HD crashed, then not too long ago had an EIDE one go down -which wasn’t all that bad cause nothing was worth a crap on that luckilly. It the truth when they say nobody thinks it’ll happen to them, until it’s too late
Goes to show though, $100 or so for a halfway decent external backup drive is well worth the cash. Set it on auto-backup incremental every night.
Don’t let it get ya down m8, think of it as a painful clean start.

Avenger

is crest-fallen I’m very sorry to hear this.

You’ve done a lot of the FL community, and we’ll miss your work and tools.

Forsaken

Wow, talk about a kick in the gut! Im very sorry to hear that man.

LancerSolurus

**Thanks guys, I appreciate it. Unfortunately in my case it was a 750 gig HD so I had no way to back up that amount of data. Still, I should have backed up my projects, they only consisted of about 50 megs worth of code and data.

A couple of good things did transpire, GE is safe and I have made another backup of it. Also, since I have copies all over the place of my mod, I still have it. Once the replacement drive comes in I can hopefully swap out the pcb on it and see if I can retrieve all of the files. It was the motor driver IC that failed, not the data in the hd (I really hope so). Luckily Seagate has a 5 year warranty on their drive and they said they are sending me the exact same model to replace it. So let’s keep our fingers and toes crossed, maybe it isn’t as bad as it seems.**

JONG

Sorry to hear of that LS.

I hope you have good luck every day.

Thanks for all of your work and help.

FriendlyFire

Let’s hope and pray it’s only a motor issue then…

Worfeh

@Lancer:

So let’s keep our fingers and toes crossed

I tried it….

Realy have issues with crossing my toes. You have a patch for that?

Wicked_Witch

Sorry to hear that Lancer

Hope there is a way maybe that somebody can safe the stuff, so all your hard work isn’t lost.
Thanks anyway for all the good tools and hard work you make/did for the FL community

Take care

OPR8R

shit happens O_o

cheeseontoast

@OPR8R:

shit happens O_o

indeed it does. hope you was able to get some of the stuff back LS.

LancerSolurus

Unfortunately no, the failure erased part of the directory, leaving me with nothing.

cheeseontoast

damn shame

Bas

Very sad, I am sorry for you

CountCornelius

OMG, i know the feeling of having lost something you worked on for months, i hope your going to get over the loss and one day return to Freelancer Tool creating whenever that day shall be. :-[

LancerSolurus

Thanks guys, I lost quite a bit. Maybe one day I may do more FL programs. At this time I am concentrating on my game engine and making tools for it.