Been away a minute. Still not sure if I will be returning to 3d with any regularity, too much wrong in my life.
Today I began the arduous process of analyzing the data corruption and damage to my HDs on my graphics machine (from the incident back on June 30). I honestly avoided it for so long for several reasons, not least of which is that one of the 2 partitions has all of my custom work, figures, scenes, animation frames, textures, etc... and if that is all lost... well, where I have been at already wasn't good and this would just about end me. Currently just trying to make disk images of the two partitions, which will likely take a few days using the software and method I am using, then it will take weeks to actually see what is salvageable and what isn't.
From a cursory glance, it looks like only 1 of the partitions is damaged (the partition with the 3D content and sound effects archives - most of which is backed up but would need to be reinstalled and reorganized again). I wont know for certain until likely this weekend or mid next week.
I have really wanted to get back to making space craft and setting up animations too. Though without voice talent my animation projects are at a relative standstill. Due to issues draining my finances everything is about at a standstill.
Most of my tools and recovery software are still in storage, and I still do not have proper room to work on it because of issues surrounding the place I am staying (lots of legal issues and problems, and may be forced to move again). Some of the content on the two partitions I have old backups of, but the newest set is from around 2019. Since 2019, myself and the computer in question has been moved around a lot. I have tried to continue working on and off in some of that time, and there was a lot of content installed to the 3D runtimes. Most of the original installers are on the second partition along with all of my Poser, Lightwave, Bryce, and VUE scenes for my animations and development, all of my rendered frames, lots of my notes (though most of the actual notes and stories I was writing are on a different drive all together). While I had at one time been backing up my purchased content to DVD Roms, I have not burned any of those since 2017 for a number of reasons, and now many of the stores I had purchased from are gone forever (including here).
My plan once I have made disk images of both partitions is to scan the partition with all the scenes, frames, and installers and hope it is not damaged, and then make a permanent archive of it to a removable USB drive which I will try to update monthly...
Once I have determined what can be saved from the 3D content drive, I will begin the long task of reinstalling content which will include organizing it as I was doing - and place all of my runtimes on 2 identical cloned USB drives so I have a master and a backup that can be taken to ANY machine with a working installation of Poser 7 or later. After all, I do have multiple versions of Poser and multiple license seats for a few of them, so that is not the issue... it is making sure that where I work has the content I was using setting up the scenes in the first place.
maybe...maybe once this is all done, if the damage is not too severe, and if I know more about what is going to happen with my Father's estate, I will try to finish a few products I was working on if those figures are even still used (haven't seen many sales of my Dusk or Dawn content at Rendo...and M4/V4 is very dated so not planning more poses for them).
