WIP and True story (Boosty)

Here's a little story from the last few days about my battles with the program... In the process of drawing a comic, after I rebooted my computer, I lost all the settings of the program, it was completely formatted and deleted all the brushes that I had created and installed for about a year and a half or two years. There was no way to get everything back to the way it was. It was a real disaster, it knocked me out and caused a lot of frustration and stress. I think this was the fourth time that all the settings in this program have flipped. 1. The first time was unprecedented. The program popped up with some sort of technical error and it shut down. After rebooting the PC, everything in the program reset. Basically, I just used downloaded brushes and my personal brushes were only a few pieces. So it took about a day and a half to restore the brushes, but I couldn't find all of them, so I found new ones, some were even better and I downloaded more. Since then I learned how to edit and make simple brushes a bit. 2. The situation happened again about six months later, again resetting all the settings, again deleting all my brushes for no reason or error. This time it took me about three days to restore, since I started customizing brushes, sorting them and restoring such brushes was already much harder. This time, while I was recovering, I learned how to work with the built-in color and the advanced brush settings. Also, this time I did not delete the archive files just in case. 3. After about 8 months, the situation happened again. The fact that I did not delete the archive files saved little: I could only find about 10% of what I installed. But this did not help much, because I was no longer using the basic settings of additional brushes, but sorted them and adjusted each individually, and these brushes were not one hundred... It took me about five days to get the program up and running. This time I learned more about how to create brushes, made them more complex, and installed and configured many new ones. At the end of this process, I had already saved them as files separately just in case. About a year and a half passed without incident, I was beginning to think it was cured. I created new brushes periodically and installed new ones, got rid of the extra ones, my collection grew by 3-4 times. When I started drawing comics, I created just great brushes, I was very pleased and happy that for the first time I was able to make on the basis of established what I had dreamed of for a long time. I thought at the time that I should save them all, since they are very precious to me and I'm unlikely to be able to repeat them, but after I finish the comic, since I could add a few more in the process, and cluttering my files with copies is not very desirable. 4. In the middle of the last segment of the comic, the program resets its settings again, after a year and a half without incident and after I had already drawn some of the pages with these brushes. In total, there were definitely over a thousand brushes, and most of them I set up by hand for a long time. I would describe my condition as white shock. Even though I had about 25% backup files, it hardly eased the pain of loss, because I rarely used them anymore, preferring what I had accumulated lately. It took me a couple of days to get the basic brushes back and set them up, extras were out of the question, Skaw was waiting for me, and that's a long time, so I was doing exactly what I needed to do now. Of course, I wasn't able to create the same brushes as I did recently because I just don't remember how or what I made them from. It was an irretrievable loss. In trying to create something similar, I learned how to create complex brushes, patterns, expanded individual settings and installed a more recent version of the program and generally discovered many new things. Even though everything I made to replace them is not the same, I created something new and different that will allow me to experiment more. I've been spending time creating new brushes and sorting periodically these days, and I also back up every time I make a major replenishment. I hope this crap doesn't give me any more problems as my anxiety reaches new heights and I'm overreacting to just about everything: duplicate files, cloud storage, permanent saves, uninterruptible power supply, fire extinguisher for electrical appliances, gas mask 😂 and you know why? I once had a screen explode with a power surge and acrid black smoke coming out of it and I think something happened to the computer itself too. I don't remember well. I'm glad I wasn't at my desk at the time.... So I want to end my story on a positive note: be careful and be safe. Anything that doesn't kill us makes us stronger and more paranoid.🤭 And I'm definitely looking forward to trying out my new brushes in the future as soon as possible! Actually I already started, haha.