So!
Laptop broke over the course of Christmas Eve evening to finally Christmas morning. Took it to get fixed Boxing Day, got it back today. The problem was really the graphics card which then led to the screen not working at all, yet when I got my laptop back it may have had a shiny new screen attached and buttons that work, but the whole thing was restored to factory settings for some reason that I don't know and am deeming entirely unnecessary TYVM.
Thing is, I'd come to accept the fact that I was going to need a desktop soon anyway; this thing is just not powerful enough anymore for the things (see: games, really) I want it to do. But I would have sorted that out after I was in my new place (March/April probably) with a desk capable of holding that there. And I would have transferred everything from my laptop.
All is not entirely lost as it did take some time for my laptop to cease functioning, and so I did manage to make a back-up - or, rather, half of one as it crashed halfway through and then the screen wouldn't work after that. Amusingly, and somewhat unsurprisingly, the majority of the 65 files within my half back-up comprise solely of TS2 stuff, but I don't know that it's everything. I do suspect that I may well have lost my OWBC hood as that had the same neighbourhood number as my apocalypse hood, and I think the apocalypse hood was the one I had in for the game when everything crashed so the OWBC was on my desktop that didn't back up AFAIK. And I may have lost my usual legacy genetic defaults as I was using Di's at the time. But I'd have to load TS2 back on here in order to find out.
I don't know if it's worth loading it all on here at all. If I am getting a desktop soon, there's not much point. And it's making the assumption that all my TS2 CDs will work. I did do that thing to download all of TS2 for free from the EA website thing a while ago, but I didn't do anything with it at the time and I don't know whether it will work, but if it will I would save that for the desktop. Assuming that the desktop wouldn't have the problem with anti-aliasing that I had with the laptop before this. Bloody technology.
Oh well, not like my legacy was going anywhere fast anyway, but it doesn't help the motivation (also I've been ill since NYE, so that's not helping my mood). Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year *coughing fit, glares at wiped laptop*
Thing is, I'd come to accept the fact that I was going to need a desktop soon anyway; this thing is just not powerful enough anymore for the things (see: games, really) I want it to do. But I would have sorted that out after I was in my new place (March/April probably) with a desk capable of holding that there. And I would have transferred everything from my laptop.
All is not entirely lost as it did take some time for my laptop to cease functioning, and so I did manage to make a back-up - or, rather, half of one as it crashed halfway through and then the screen wouldn't work after that. Amusingly, and somewhat unsurprisingly, the majority of the 65 files within my half back-up comprise solely of TS2 stuff, but I don't know that it's everything. I do suspect that I may well have lost my OWBC hood as that had the same neighbourhood number as my apocalypse hood, and I think the apocalypse hood was the one I had in for the game when everything crashed so the OWBC was on my desktop that didn't back up AFAIK. And I may have lost my usual legacy genetic defaults as I was using Di's at the time. But I'd have to load TS2 back on here in order to find out.
I don't know if it's worth loading it all on here at all. If I am getting a desktop soon, there's not much point. And it's making the assumption that all my TS2 CDs will work. I did do that thing to download all of TS2 for free from the EA website thing a while ago, but I didn't do anything with it at the time and I don't know whether it will work, but if it will I would save that for the desktop. Assuming that the desktop wouldn't have the problem with anti-aliasing that I had with the laptop before this. Bloody technology.
Oh well, not like my legacy was going anywhere fast anyway, but it doesn't help the motivation (also I've been ill since NYE, so that's not helping my mood). Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year *coughing fit, glares at wiped laptop*