Looks very interesting, Zaq. Sorry to hear of your computer woes... maybe a monsta named "Carbonite" to be slain in your series? :)

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If I could think of a vile enough data consuming pile of sludge, I'd be tempted!

Sorry to hear about all the work you lost. If it's any consolation, know that it happened to me before.

Don't know about Carbonite but nowadays I always store my most valued files in either SD memory cards or a thumb drive, and I always store them in more than one place. Just a small suggestion. :)

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I did have a backup on my external hard drive, but unfortunately the program I used would not recognize the file types for Poser data and content... I'm now using one which creates a full mirror image of my hard drive.

Thanks for the update...Sorry to hear about your trouble with Carbonite...I know how awful it feels to lose files...Now, I backup all my important files on external HDs. On my 4th drive. I keep nothing I would hate to lose on my working computer, and I certainly wouldn't pay someone to keep my important files because I know how incompetent they can be. Look forward to your return :)

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My only concern with not using an offsite backup service is the frequent power surges we get here... I have my PC and external hard drive on a series of three surge protector but I still worry about getting both zapped.

Magnificent work

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Sorry you could not recover everything - it sound like that problem won't be repeated!!! Looking forward to the coming series!!!

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I try not to make the same mistake twice... but there are always new and wonderful mistakes to make!

Sorry for what happened to you! Keep courage!

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Lost many things through the years, countless stuff. Don't use carbonite myself.

Will be waiting for your posts.

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sorry to hear of your problem. hopefully things will work out for you. I swear by dvd's for backups

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Unfortunately I was stupid when I bought this computer and didn't get a read/write DVD drive.

Sorry to hear about your trouble. I can relate. I once had to reinstall windows. It wanted to reformat my hard drive. I accidentally pointed it to my document drive that had all my poser stuff on it and wiped that instead. I didn't have it completely backed up. I was able to get some of it restored. Most content I found again.

Look forward to your posts again. Thanks for the update.

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I was able to restore most of my content from here and DAZ, but unfortunately some of the old stuff I had from RDNA is gone forever... What really annoyed me is loosing my old character files because of Carbonite!

I'm so sorry they messed you so hard. Yes, such a data service should you really destroy. Fortunately, I save all my data on two external hard drives, which has often saved my ass.

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I hope I never have to depend on it, but I've already signed up with "IDrive" which was recommended as the best offsite backup by PC Magazine... I'll have everything mirrored on my external hard drive... but I'm worry about having it and my PC fried by power spikes which we have a lot here.

Can't wait to see what follows that title. :)

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Thanks for the update - it can be a gut-wrenching experience losing irreplaceable files like that. Happened to me a couple times - now I'm utterly anal about backing up stuff, especially massive runtimes that would take months of work to restore or reinstall.

I'm guessing Carbonite is a cloud-based backup service - that probably charges a substantial fee for their "service'... Sounds like they need someone to rip them a new a##hole. They sure didn't deliver for you.

Anyway, I hope the rest of the computer recovery goes smoothly!

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I've recovered about as much as I'm going to be able to... So I'm trying to find my footing again and get back on track with the story... Although I'm doing some "recasting" since I have to recreate some parts anyway... The crash gave me time to reconsider some elements.

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Carbonite sounds awful! I'm looking forward to seeing whatever you come up with next.

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I sincerely hope the rest of the series doesn't disappoint!

Man that sucks!! Friggin Corbomite Manoeuvre!

I'll use the lul to go back and re-read!

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I appreciate your interest... I hope the continuation doesn't disappoint!

just chill and do some pictures for here

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A few months ago, one of my external files died. I lost many old files. I now have two external drives. But I prefer to manually copy files to these drives. To me, it's safer than assuming files are being copied. No sure way with computers.

Thanks... It seems to be damned if you do and damned if you don't... The solid state drive is supposed to be a lot more dependable and now I've got a mirror copy going to my external drive daily and a backup going to IDrive daily... I may sound paranoid but I've been burned twice now.

Carbonite sounds terrible.

It is... But I've already "fired" them and found a new service, IDrive, who was recommended by PC Magazine... Unfortunately a lot of my old work is gone, but I was able to recover everything from this series. Assuming no more "recasting" on my part, I have all the images done and about four narratives but I have ten more to go... I originally planned to do about a dozen images in this "book" but it's twice that now!

I'm sorry for all your computer troubles. (I stopped using Daz3d because of computer crashes. back-ups never worked right. I keep saying I'll retry the program but I'm too stressed from life that I just don't have the energy. I'll just use png images for now.) I do hope things get straightened out however you need them to and you don't have more trouble. I'm sorry for all the stress and upset your computer has caused you.

Thank you... I heard a competitor on the Food network's Beat Bobby Flay say "stress is man made". However, I'm more of the mind that "to err is human, to really foul things up requires a computer"!

There seems to be a lot of this going around at the moment. hung in there !

Thanks... Yes indeed it seems computers are crash all over the world... I just hope other artists have learned from my errors and taken better precautions then I did!

Looking forward to your posting again when you can. I have two external drives as back ups (not counting the one I use for working on things) just in case. I've lost a couple drives myself and its horrible.

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I'm five narratives in with about nine more to go... If I can keep myself focused (really big if there), I hope to start posting again before the end of the week.

Very nice story!

Awesome!!

Nice, Forgotten Realms stories and adventures! :) Going to have to backtrack to the beginning for this series :)

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I really hope your computer issues are rectified soon, I know how demoralizing that can be. You've been doing some great work though, and you will continue to do it, talent doesn't die even if your computer does. :)

Thank you so much for your kind comment... I really appreciate the encouragement! I've recover as much as I'm able to, but I lost a lot of my older Poser files... However, I have started working on this series again... I'm just hung up on a few of the narratives.

Sorry to hear about the woes with Carbonite and for the warning. I never used their services but thought about it once or twice.