Photoshop Files Lost/Corrupted (Patreon)

 You may have noticed that I haven't been streaming lately. Well, I had a hardware failure on my computer, then windows screwed me. Here is the rundown.

>Computer has a hardware failure, motherboard and/or CPU damaged and computer cannot run.
>Kinda expensive but sure, I will get new parts to have a more powerful computer.
>Newer hardware doesn't support Windows 7, to be specific Windows 7 doesn't support USB 3.0 and mouse + keyboard doesn't function beyond the new BIOS screen.
>Figured I could upgrade to Windows 10. Old data is backed up into a 'windows.old' directory for 30 days.
>Old data is backed up in windows.old, I proceed to set up my computer without worry. Even extracted my bookmarks for chrome from the backup.
>Check again to move my WIP and commission art from the backup to my new system...
>Windows.old is missing.

Well there you have it folks. While I do backups of my files here and there, I had not recently. All of the work in progress and more recent photoshop files from before my hardware crash are gone. Finished sketches extracted as PNG are still in dropbox/patreon. I used a recovery tool to get back what I could, but it's honestly looking like they are all corrupted at this point. I have no real clue how the backup vanished, I can only assume it was due to some automatic windows update since I never ran a cleanup tool.

If I had sent you photoshop files or WIP sketches for projects, please send them my way so I can archive them and/or continue. WIP commission are probably cancelled unless a WIP extraction/PNG was done at some point.

If you have a WIP commission and would like to inquire if your commission wasn't salvageable, send me a message.

As I am writing this, I am trying to get my drawing tablet working on Windows 10. From there, I need to obtain some new art software so I can pick myself up and continue drawing.