Arrrghhhhh I've just lost months of retro special work
Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 12:05 am
I'm gutted. I was about 3/4 of the way through the next C16/+4 retro magazine special release I wanted to keep quiet about until release. But a short time ago I had to reinstall my PC and I thought I made a copy but somehow I didn't, I thought I had.
Fortunately all the game reviews and the news pages are still there completed from my previous backup, but I've lost all the cleaned up technical features which was so near to completion. I reckon around 60 pages gone.
This is going to take a long time to fix as there's just so many I've lost. I was hoping for a Christmas release, but unless I really get my skates on now it'll be Christmas 2011 by the time it's flaming ready. I could kick myself
At least I still have all the important original .jpg scans still sorted out so I don't need to hunt through the whole DVD again searching for those, but I've lost half a ton of adverts that still needed polishing. Maybe there's still time, but it's a pain to have to do those all over again, you kinda lose the mood for it although I'm still determined. I've just been so busy with other personal stuff lately that I had to sometimes put it on the back burner.
I also lost all my saved work to C&VG. Fortunately that's complete and I just need to download a copy again, although I can no longer make any amendments (shouldn't need to anyway).
This would have been a sackable offence in Zzap Towers
Fortunately all the game reviews and the news pages are still there completed from my previous backup, but I've lost all the cleaned up technical features which was so near to completion. I reckon around 60 pages gone.
This is going to take a long time to fix as there's just so many I've lost. I was hoping for a Christmas release, but unless I really get my skates on now it'll be Christmas 2011 by the time it's flaming ready. I could kick myself
At least I still have all the important original .jpg scans still sorted out so I don't need to hunt through the whole DVD again searching for those, but I've lost half a ton of adverts that still needed polishing. Maybe there's still time, but it's a pain to have to do those all over again, you kinda lose the mood for it although I'm still determined. I've just been so busy with other personal stuff lately that I had to sometimes put it on the back burner.
I also lost all my saved work to C&VG. Fortunately that's complete and I just need to download a copy again, although I can no longer make any amendments (shouldn't need to anyway).
This would have been a sackable offence in Zzap Towers