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Post by Nikki on Aug 26, 2014 23:40:37 GMT -5
^ Ohhh gosh!! I can't even begin to express just how bad that makes me feel!! That computer couldn't just hold on for a little longer? -.- Man...that is harsh. My gosh, RaverJurassic, I know you!! You were on AAP waaaaay back when! Cool to see you again! Yep. A raging ex roommate had stolen my CD binder, which had all my hard backups, so I was in the process of backing everything up again when my computer randomly decided to emit the magic blue smoke that signaled the end of it's time. I wasn't able to recover anything. It was pretty bad. I had about 100 petz, many of which were custom hexies, some of pets that had passed away, like Domino. I was so enraged, that's what kicked off my leaving the petz community for so long... I couldn't convince myself to rebuild. Knowing then what I know now might have changed my reaction, but I was just so upset I didn't even consider contacting everyone I adopted from at the time to see if they had backups. I think I was even in the midst of some adoptions and I had a number of fairly complicated hex projects in progress... IIRC, I was working on a continued line of Energy Drink bulldogz and more winged toffee tabbies. I love this thread and story because it's so sweet and has a happy ending. I was gone for so long that I can't even hope to recover all that I lost. It's so great to see a happy ending to a petz lost story. (Yes, I totally get sappy over pixels). Note: This is why I obsessively keep copies of every pet I adopt out in a folder that I backup to drop box occasionally just so that if I can help someone find a lost pet, I know where to look. Is AAP even still alive?
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Post by CatCreature on Aug 27, 2014 0:29:12 GMT -5
I'm surprised I'm recognized. lol. If I'm not giving stuff away, I wasn't the most social of butterflies. But YES, I am back yet again to torture people with either horrible hexes or breedings gone wrong. I can't stay away. ;D Between the fact that you gave me this guy and I believe back then you and MidnightWolf talked a bit and he'd mentioned you... Yeah. I remember your name! xD It makes me feel nostalgic now, haha! And Susan, ohhhhh man. -.- Every bit more I read from your post makes me hurt for you all the more. It's crazy, isn't it? How much we use and rely on our computer, and don't expect it to just go...and suddenly everything is gone. It really is easy to take it for granted. I've been pretty lucky for a while. One of my old computers kept crashing to the point where I thought I lost everything. With the help of more computer-savy family members, and after hours of work, we were able to figure it out. I started learning to back stuff up often pretty quickly. xD I try to at LEAST back my computer up once a month now. As for my petz...my petz are backed up in MULTIPLE places. I completely and totally get being attached to these pixels...they're more than that to me. xD That's why I'm determined to not lose anyone ever again. As for AAP, I have no idea. It was pretty dead last I heard. I left there years ago though.
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Post by raverjurassic on Aug 27, 2014 12:12:38 GMT -5
Yeah I remember talking to MidnightWolf. XD And I can't see the link, but going by the header I can assume it's one of those rainbow-butt blue dali buggers I had running around. I still have a few of them lying around, too. XD
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Post by CatCreature on Aug 27, 2014 15:30:36 GMT -5
^ Sorry about the link going down, you can see it again now. I JUST moved WAA to a new host apparently a month ago, and I already forgot their rule to log into the control panel once a month, or it'll be blocked. But yeah, that's what it is! xD
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Post by ✬MsWildiful✬ on Aug 28, 2014 20:08:16 GMT -5
Awww, sad and happy story. I think my favorite petz that I remember and have lost were my Candy Corn dali and my custom hex of my old Border Collie, Domino. I don't even remember who hexed those two, but I miss 'em bad. They were lost, not to corruption, but to the flaming death of a computer that just couldn't take another day. It died they day of the backup that would have saved them... I raged for a week because I lost everything /while/ I was trying to back it all up. oh my gosh that's so terrible! i know how you feel, i usually try to clean the dust out from the inside of my computer every once and a while but i guess your computer was just too old and or dusty to take anymore ;( that's just too sad, one time i raged for a while because there was this one Minecraft server that me and my friend loved to bits that we had played on for a long long time and made tons of happy memories on, but then when a big game update was released the server owner decided to completely delete the world that we loved so dearly without even saving a copy for people to download! i was so mad when i logged on one day and found that i was spawned in a completely different world with a few signs and one of them saying: we are slowly starting to rebuild spawn after we started all over for the new update! gosh we built things like: a big jungle tree house, a KFC, a horse stable, an exhibit for a pet zombie pigman (very hard to obtain), then it was just all gone just like that....
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