Trying *very* hard to be...not...crushed?
Well, it's official. I had the hard-drive checked, and it officially went bad. If I wanted to pay a few hundred dollars to get it recovered, I suppose I could try that route, but it's awfully hard to rationalize that sort of..investment.
So, 45 GB or so of episodes, graphics, and fan vids, (not to mention the website I was almost ready to put online)...gone. I'm trying very hard to be ok with this. I burned a fair amount of my Buffy eps to VCD, so I suppose if I want to play with vidding things, I can recapture them from the DVD player. And, it'll take a few weeks I'm sure, but I know I can probably re-download most, if not all, of the episodes I had in mpeg format. Losing the website and all of my original graphics files is a little harder to stomach. I have jpgs on-line of most of the stuff, and I can always redo a site, but it's depressing to see all that time just...disappear.
I guess that teaches me to think I have some safe-zone of time to back things up. I fully intended to get all of the files I transferred to that disk backed-up to CD as well, but I really really really didn't expect the drive to die a week after I bought it.
How did I get so attached to these files? And why did they have to disappear two days after Buffy ended?
Just...ouch. Ouch, ouch, ouch. *sigh* Now I have to decide if it's worth trying to trust another one of these drives, or ask for my money back...
So, 45 GB or so of episodes, graphics, and fan vids, (not to mention the website I was almost ready to put online)...gone. I'm trying very hard to be ok with this. I burned a fair amount of my Buffy eps to VCD, so I suppose if I want to play with vidding things, I can recapture them from the DVD player. And, it'll take a few weeks I'm sure, but I know I can probably re-download most, if not all, of the episodes I had in mpeg format. Losing the website and all of my original graphics files is a little harder to stomach. I have jpgs on-line of most of the stuff, and I can always redo a site, but it's depressing to see all that time just...disappear.
I guess that teaches me to think I have some safe-zone of time to back things up. I fully intended to get all of the files I transferred to that disk backed-up to CD as well, but I really really really didn't expect the drive to die a week after I bought it.
How did I get so attached to these files? And why did they have to disappear two days after Buffy ended?
Just...ouch. Ouch, ouch, ouch. *sigh* Now I have to decide if it's worth trying to trust another one of these drives, or ask for my money back...