WZA contest: Last hope

[Icekid84]

Really sorry to hear that, this was a car with great potential. Even worse for you is to lose the other stuff. When you get a new HDD I highly recommend getting an external HD to keep updated.

[DbblGlock]

well, thanks for the concern mates, i am planning to get an external hdd now. my bros at uni with his external hd. He says he might have a copy of my 3d max files becuase he backed some of my computer stuff up. if he does have it it might be an early copy of my work. But i'll need to wait for him to come back home, whcih will be a week or two. so i'll tell you lot if i get recovered.

As far as the competition, i will follow everyone elses and hopefully give constructive crits from time to time. the competition is comeing along awesomely from the ones i have seen and everyone has got something unique which makes theirs speacial. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK EVERYONE!

[tom120934]

I'm always disappointed to read such stories.

I hope anyone who loved your work will keep your misadventure in mind : DO BACKUP, YOU FOOLS ! As I always say, a simple mail to yourself with the latest version of your .max/.blend/.whatever file is enough to solve the "very recent files" problem. Organizing all your important data in a simple folder and make sure to automate a copying process of it every week is mandatory.

I hope you'll get with another good idea to get back in the contest.

[caribcanuk]

hmmmm i alway back up everything twice . once on a seperate hd on this pc and again on a seperate pc i use just for storing data. nothing worse than losing days of work

[DbblGlock]

Originally Posted by tom120934

I'm always disappointed to read such stories.

I hope anyone who loved your work will keep your misadventure in mind : DO BACKUP, YOU FOOLS ! As I always say, a simple mail to yourself with the latest version of your .max/.blend/.whatever file is enough to solve the "very recent files" problem. Organizing all your important data in a simple folder and make sure to automate a copying process of it every week is mandatory.

I hope you'll get with another good idea to get back in the contest.

Good points you have there. will keep it in mind. I usually do back up things. The thing i had running in my mind was. this competition runs for 3 months, what could possibly go wrong? well obviously, death can come round any time. we know we cant back up life, but you can files. i should've done so.

I have a very good organised filing system on my pc, and i had backed up everything up to the end of 2007 onto this pc i am using now. The thing is, the one i was using for the competition was at uni so i found it difficult to transfere file between them.

Originally Posted by caribcanuk

hmmmm i alway back up everything twice . once on a seperate hd on this pc and again on a seperate pc i use just for storing data. nothing worse than losing days of work

I usually do the same. i got 2 backups of eveything. Its jus the frequency i do it. i need to do it more often. as i said earlier, the last lime i backed up was in december some time.
I usually back up on my bros computer and his ext HDD. he backs up on mine sometimes to. He's taken his Pc to uni, and i've taken mine to uni. The one i'm usin now is my old one at home as i come home for the weekends. some of my stuff is backed up here to

We'll i've learnt my lesson i think, next time i will do something like a weekly backup

If my bro has a copy of the WZA car i will rejoin. i don't have it on this pc, but i doubt hes got it to. I don't think i will rejoin as i fear i will not come up with something as quality as my last

Hopefully another competition will arise similar to this later on in the year (summer maybe). i will deff join in then