Bob Blunderton
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Bit of a minor setback
🕑 Added 2018-12-29 07:20:17 +0000 UTCTransformer blew out in town, taking out my entire c: drive File Allocation Table.
THE IMPORTANT STUFF WAS BACKED UP, HOWEVER.
I was able to save some of my work, from the drive itself, some of the large files DID NOT MAKE IT. However, this isn't a write-off, the project was merely walked back by the 2~3 days I spent unifying the abandoned mall with it's parking lot. That's the only object that was lost. While I lost some of my source objects along with that, that's not a big deal due to the fact that I regularly back up, and what is finished gets put into the map, and that gets backed up. So while I may be out a few days of work, if that's it, that's not too bad. I'd say about 5 days at most of progress was lost.
So, thankfully, when I migrated the system boot drive (and my working drive) over from the old set of SSD's (about 4 years old) last September, to the new ones (which ended up failing), I left the old ones untouched. I am using this now to write this. So this way, all that I had to do was switch two plugs.
Let's not go through THAT again, so I'll be building in better redundancy sometime next month, and keep extra-diligent on my backups until then.
Thankfully I sent out copies of the MRK Collector Road kit updates, and the Sunken Station out to folks for testing. This meant I didn't lose those, otherwise I'd have been back to where I was on the 29th of November.
So all is not lost. I am doing the best I can do with what I have, and I hope it's smoother sailing here. I may have lost a few days work but I do backups all the time. So it's never a deal-breaker.
I will have to re-export my terrain out again, though, but for what it's worth, I am just glad that I could switch some plugs and get the system back up.
Backups, backups, backups, always do backups! I know this best!
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Bob Blunderton
Having a little bit of a rough patch, but I am still modeling my rear off (I hope that doesn't sound bad). Lots of new buildings coming for the end of the month and hopefully a few more points of interest. Roane County will be updated following the next release with all new bridges - made possible from awesome Patreon members like YOU, who will get the beta of that a week or two in advance of all other folks.
Sterling Strang
We miss you Bob
