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General Category => General Anim8or Forum => Topic started by: Steve on October 15, 2015, 09:45:05 pm
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I returned home last week, ready to continue working on Anim8or. Unfortunately one of the disks in my development computer hard-crashed the next day, dead, dead, dead. Nothing was recoverable. Not to worry, I have backups of everything important. It still took more than a week to figure out that the disk was really gone, and then get everything up and running, transferring all the licenses to the new configuration, etc.
I should have something interesting posted in a week or so. Big changes coming to Anim8or this fall!
Note: I use Carbonite for backing up my computer. It worked very well. 38 GB of data restored with the click of a button! Thank goodness that I have a Giga-Bit fiber connection at home :) So if anyone is looking for a good cloud-based backup service, I highly recommend Carbonite. It cost $59/year for unlimited data on 1 PC and runs almost unnoticed in the background. (They should give me a discount for this plug :) )
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Not to worry, I have backups of everything important.
funny how many of the world's great computer stories hinge around that sentence, isn't it? 8)
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How i wish this sort of thing existed for the human memory.
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How i wish this sort of thing existed for the human memory.
I was just thinkin' the SAME THING!
Oh, wait...
What were we talkin' about again?
Welcome back, Steve! Glad to hear everything is copacetic...
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Good to know you're back Steve, looking forward to the updates :)
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Thank you Steve! Been using Anim8or since 2004 and don't use anything else!
Get Learning Anim8or! (http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=83285) < Where I began! :-)
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Thanks, Slugs! Wow, that's a long thread on Anim8or - it has over 1500 replies!
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Yes! A lot of people over there love your program and have made tons of models with it for their Thief: The Dark Project/Gold/Metal Age game levels! :-)
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Hey I've been to those forums (can't remember what for though >.> ).
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A lot of people over there love your program and have made tons of models with it for their Thief: The Dark Project/Gold/Metal Age game levels! :-)
Yep, somehow Anim8or is way more popular with the Thief community than other software.
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Good to hear!
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I returned home last week, ready to continue working on Anim8or. Unfortunately one of the disks in my development computer hard-crashed the next day, dead, dead, dead. Nothing was recoverable. Not to worry, I have backups of everything important. It still took more than a week to figure out that the disk was really gone, and then get everything up and running, transferring all the licenses to the new configuration, etc.
I should have something interesting posted in a week or so. Big changes coming to Anim8or this fall!
Note: I use Carbonite for backing up my computer. It worked very well. 38 GB of data restored with the click of a button! Thank goodness that I have a Giga-Bit fiber connection at home :) So if anyone is looking for a good cloud-based backup service, I highly recommend Carbonite. It cost $59/year for unlimited data on 1 PC and runs almost unnoticed in the background. (They should give me a discount for this plug :) )
October must be the month of Hard drive failures. I bought a brand new one that took a dive. No personal data, but I am having to re-write some of my an8 code for Game Maker. And THAT is annoying, but alas. it could have been worse! :D glad to hear you could get a backup going, though!
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glad to hear I'm not the only one I meant to say, I feel your pain. :P
I'm trying to do a platter swap with a hard drive with some MAJOR important data (my whole life in the past 7 years pretty much)
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Yup. That's why doing backups frequently is essential, especially when you're working on an important project.
FWIW, Western Digital disks currently come with access to a limited-function version of Acronis. It takes about half an hour to backup 150 GB on my Windows computer, going from an internal SSD to an external 3TB disk.