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Posted by bosArt on 06-15-2015 at09:39:

3 TB of data lost ...

3 days ago I had a serious HD crash. 3 TB data lost. the disk contained the main part of my object & figure archive. no creative work has been lost, but lots of geometry files are missing. not sure yet what projects might be afflicted by this issue. I have to open all scenes, check all characters to see what's missing. I should be able to restore most of the lost data but this will take some time. no new releases to be espected in the near future ...

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Posted by Mandrake on 06-17-2015 at01:31:

  RE: 3 TB of data lost ...

Sorry to hear that. Hope you are able to get back on track soon.

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Posted by bosArt on 06-17-2015 at10:46:

 

looks as if the hd is physically damaged. only chance to restore data directly from the damaged disk would be a very expensive professional service. so right now I concentrate on building up my archives again by reinstalling from old backups. sadly this is very time consuming ...

about 20 % of the newer creations are affected. luckily most of it can be restored from backups or older archives. until now I have found just one character that might be lost for good as I simply can’t remember where I got it from and the name doesn’t show up when I search for it. in most cases it's just minor things like for example a cactus in the desert scene, a newly added pair of shoes or a single texture I created as an addition for an existing model ...

this will take some time. good thing is, that I have already rebuilt my core poser library. so I am able to continue at least with those projects, that are not affected by any data loss ...