Cruiser Eidolon has experienced some unexpected problems, since I a) am too excited about two new projects and b) almost lost its source code and all other files.
Let me tell you a story. One day I was packing my stuff because I was going to my grandma’s for a week. My eight-year-old laptop had Xubuntu in it, but because it didn’t work so well (it ran into some errors when trying to run Minecraft, for example) I reinstalled its original Windows XP.
Then I started to wonder how I could move my game project folders into the laptop, because I couldn’t find my USB memory stick. Dropbox is the solution, I thought. So I moved the project files to Dropbox and downloaded them into my laptop. Everything seemed okay.
Until the laptop wanted to reboot itself thanks to some Windows updates. It shut down, started again and went happily to the Windows loading screen. After that everything went wrong.
It shut down again. Started, shut down again. Started, shut down again. Until I pulled the plug out of the wall (it shut the computer down immediately, since the battery has been dead for five years (the only place to get a new one is some Danish eBay-equivalent, where it costs 120€. Maybe I’ll just buy a new laptop. Or a tablet.)). Then there was only silence.
I had to reinstall Windows once again. When I tried to download the project files again from Dropbox I noticed they weren’t there any more. This was because dragging them out of the folder didn’t copy them, but move them instead.
I checked the Pineapple (My main computer. Yes, it has a name) for the files. They weren’t there either. You can guess my reaction. I always assume that files are copied, not moved when they are sent to the Internet. That’s an unofficial standard, isn’t it?
I panicked and downloaded some piece of file restoration software to save my lost files, because they weren’t in the recycle bin (moved files should also be backuped there, Windows!). It could only find some three-year old stuff. All hope was lost.
Then I checked the Dropbox website and jumped in the air in joy. There was a “recover a deleted file” button. I clicked it and it restored the folder. My day (along with all my projects) was saved. After that Dropbox told me that no more files could be recovered. Well, that was fine for me. My projects were safe.
I hope this short (?) story will teach you, my dear readers, or at least those who don’t already know it, the importance of backup copies.
Oh, those two new projects I mentioned? More about them tomorrow. This post became so long and it’s already quite late (almost 1 am, lol).
To prevent this post becoming gray and monotonous, here’s a picture:
By the way, does anybody know how to make an alphabetical list with HTML?
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