Major Loss
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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!
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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. -
**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.**
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Let’s hope and pray it’s only a motor issue then…
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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 communityTake care
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Unfortunately no, the failure erased part of the directory, leaving me with nothing.
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damn shame
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Very sad, I am sorry for you
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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. :-[
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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.