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shenske:
Well it seems my worse fear may have come true. It would appear that the cover making machine (my laptop) is officially dead. This is absolutely terrible new for me since I by no means have the funds currently to get another computer. Every cover I have ever made was on that computer. Any of the new covers I previewed in the forums but is not on the site is also on there. I don't know if the files on my hdd are recoverable or not but I won't be able to do anything with them even if they are fine.
It's a little depressing that I can't contribute to the site not because of lack of time but because I don't have the tools to do so. I don't know what to do currently and it may be a LONG time before I can get back in the game here. I really don't want to stop making cover (in fact it's driving me crazy not doing it) but I don't have a whole lot of options right now. If only I could covers on my iPhone ... well that wold be a pain in the ass but I would do it if i had to.
I have no intention of leaving the forums but I won't have the same type of presence here :(
Alex:
I hate saying it, but make backups regularly. Please.
Misanthroat:
Shenske, you are the last person on this site who should be apologizing for lack of created content.
I would never have gotten into SNES Vertical covers if it were not for your templates.
I'm sure a lot of people here would agree that we wouldn't have as much as we do if not for your contributions.
Mick Dundee:
you can probably get an external hard drive enclosure for your laptops hard drive as long as it is the laptop itself that crashed and not the Hdd. I did the same for my father in-law...then I erased everything and now have a 250gb ps3 as opposed to the original 80gb :)
Try for the external enclosure. Less than 10 bucks off eBay. Then its just a matter of attaching it to a pc that does work.
shenske:
--- Quote from: Alex on July 27, 2011, 07:41:31 PM ---I hate saying it, but make backups regularly. Please.
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It's really not that easy. I have been trying to save up for an external drive for years now but something always comes up that drains my money. I have been through 4 cars in the past 6months alone. I can't afford to get a nicer one so they don't last very long (I need a car for work so I don't have time to wait and save up). I can't backup my files through online storage because the cover folder I have is 50gb+ alone.
When the time comes that I do get another computer and assuming my files are fine I will get an enclosure for the drive an it will become my new external drive.
I'll get it all figured out, it'll just take a while ...