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Everything's gone (Patreon)

Published:
2016-04-19 05:14:50
Edited:
2016-04-19 05:16:49
Imported:
2022-01

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So I lost every single one of my files on my hdd and its unrecoverable. Things are going to be slow.

Thing's I've lost:


- About ten years of art references, a lot of which was concept art from sites that don't even exist anymore, or just cannot be found anymore


- ALL the Frozen art I've accumulated, a lot of which is also unobtainable because it's been erased from the internet.


- Any commissions and gift art I've received, a lot of which are from people I assume are dead because they've disappeared.


- All my comic progress.


- Any and all gift art and commissions that I started before Thursday is gone.


- About 8 unfinished portfolios for jobs that I was hoping to apply for by the end of the year.


- Old photos.


All of it was close to 100 GB of data.

Comments

Anonymous

Oh no! Are you sure it's unrecoverable? If the hard drive at least spins up, you can usually recover some files with a recovery disc. Also, I know this doesn't help now but you should definitely save up to invest in some backups. Ideally you should get an online cloud backup plan like Crashplan or Carbonite, which are around $60/yr but worth it, especially if your work is primarily digital. At the least, a portable hard drive that you backup to weekly (and keep disconnected in the meantime) would suffice.

calicopikachu
>>1670067

I appreciate the suggestion. But I actually had it taken in to be worked on all weekend and it was still unable to be recovered. Nothing was physically or internally wrong with it from what the IT guy could tell. And it was spinning and making no noises out of the ordinary. I'm gonna have to send it in, but I'd be risking losing $300 for a problem they might not even fix. If it was a guaranteed fix, I'd take it, but they don't guarantee anything.

Katenotsostraight

Thats horrible!! Is there anything we can do to help?

Anonymous

That's awful, I know, I've been there before.

Anonymous

BTW - unless you know for a fact that your hard drive has been wiped, several times (say by a virus), or your disk is physically damaged, in theory the data is still there and recoverable, even if someone has to dismantle the hard drive, remove the disk and rebuild the whole thing. It's not cheap, and you may not get every single file back, but it's highly unusual for an entire hard drive to be corrupted... unless its been having performance issues for a while and it just finally kicked the bucket?

calicopikachu
>>1671339

There's files that are still "technically" there, but all but about ten are not openable. I've scanned the thing several times and no virus or anything came up on it, and when I took it in, the IT guy couldn't find anything wrong with it either, neither physically or internally or whatever.

Anonymous

That sucks dude :(