Comment 90106

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Firiel
Feb 24, 2016, 1:58:47 PM UTC
I don't know how well it compares to other programs, honestly? It took me a while to get used to it. I would pull up some of my earlier stuff for comparison, only I lost a bunch of that awhile ago via computer bug... >.<

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[Art] The Cair
ArkillianDragon
Feb 24, 2016, 7:52:45 PM UTC on [Art] The Cair
Ouch- I hope you back up your files regularly now. I had a scare a while ago and I know I do now!

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  • Firiel
    Feb 24, 2016, 11:36:46 PM UTC
    ...I did for awhile. My backup drive has been struggling to read something in the files these past few times, and shutting down partway through the backup, which... concerns me. Some of my stuff is saved to the cloud but I don't know that that's a safe way to go with everything because my cloud stuff also syncs with my phone and if all my graphics were there as well as my documents, how much phone memory would I have left?
    Another reason to put as much as I can in galleries online - yeah there's a risk somebody might steal it, but I know there are multiple copies for me to recover from if something goes wrong before I can work out whatever snarl is keeping me from backing up.
    • ArkillianDragon
      Feb 24, 2016, 11:48:51 PM UTC
      Urgh- but where do you store high res versions? :/ I think get another back up drive. The cost for a drive is dropping every day. I have a 2TB one that was super cheep and holds way more than my cluttered My Docs / Pics can hold. It's worth saving up for if you can't outright buy it. You could start your computer any day and lose everything. That happened to me a few months ago when I installed Office, and it deleted my My documents. All my writing since I was a teenager gone. I had old versions on an old IDE hard drive from 2 computers ago so I was lucky, but lost a few files that I'll never get back Sad
      • Firiel
        Feb 25, 2016, 12:00:43 AM UTC
        *pained whimper* All your stuff since you were a teen?!

        I've still got hardcopy of at least some of my stuff for re-scan value. Things that've been sold off or damaged in some way, and the 3D stuff are the big concerns... There are a lot of homemade objects on the internal library on Bryce that I would lose anytime I needed to reinstall.
        • ArkillianDragon
          Feb 25, 2016, 12:08:09 AM UTC
          Yeah- I lost a Starwars Play I wrote for my Cub Scout pack which was super cute, and a few obscure versions of my Dragon Twins story. I'll miss the plays, but the others were likely just junk ideas. Most taht I made between the hard drive and my current computer were gone though. Luckily it wasn't that many. It could've been way worse. I was lucky I got the old files thoguh- the IDE hard drive wasn't compatible with my computer. I had to take it and put it into an ancient PC at work that had IDE ports which was luckily modern enough to have USB ports or I may have had to put it onto a 3 1/4 floppy or burn it to CD D: Ah- technology :/