Anyone who can console me....!

[iacdxb]

I was happy about R19 but in next movement... found my one external drive is not working which was having last few years purchased stuff, plugins, textures, HDRIs... many many other libraries.... around 3Tb data I lost. A SAD day....!

Not remember now... from where what I bought, have to see all years old emails to find out... 3TB data..... I need years to set again.

NO idea what to do now from where I have to start.....!!!

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[Cinemike]

Suggesting "Shift+F10" in C4D is a harsh and pretty "unfunny" reply, but well ... couldn't help.

But I feel for you, I had several dead drives in the past and never those I had backups of.

[Eddoron]

The plugins and hdris should be easy to find.
For the textures, don't worry that much. It's a common habit to hoard everything that "might be useful in the future".
I stopped(well, heavily decreased) my habit of hoarding useful stuff and now only get/create it when I need it.

I'd say: concentrate on things that allow you to create your basic needs first and work yourself up from there.

And don't forget that, the most powerful tool you have is C4D. For example, you can easily create trees and other plants using the hair system alone, dynamic to the wind and other forces.(just search on youtube  and you'll find lots of tutorials)

Also: With great power comes great responsibility!

heads up!

[sebastian___]

I was also quite upset when I had a hard drive break maybe 10 years ago. And I lost a cool test project with a dinosaur composited on a real footage.

I don't have consoling words, but I sometimes say that bad things can lead to good things.
In this particular case - you can take it as a strong lesson/case to finally convince you to start making backups. And because of this, you won't lose again that even more important future project file.

[Ondra]

I tried to make a joke that I lost corona sources on one 1st april, and nobody believed me :/

[Cinemike]

I tried to make a joke that I lost corona sources on one 1st april, and nobody believed me :/

Who would care for the source anyway, you only can run the compiled stuff!

[burnin]

visit a data recovery specialist in a 'clean room'
last i checked it was pretty cheap (~ 200-300 €) compared to otherwise lost stuff & time

btw cinemike, compiled soft needs to be reverse-engineered for other platforms and further development :p

Ondra, you should open source it ;)

[Cinemike]

btw cinemike, compiled soft needs to be reverse-engineered for other platforms and further development :p

I deliberately abstained from adding a proper emoji because I thought the irony was obvious.
My bad.
Again.

:P

[iacdxb]

Hi,

Thanks guys.
I gave for recover... but no luck, no idea how suddenly badly damaged.... RIP !

Now its gone.... no more tears. Safe side.... I am changing all my other drives to new ones... as they are almost eight or ten years old, transferring all data to new drives and giving rest to the old drives.

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[Eddoron]

There are some companies currently copying all the books and human knowledge onto plates, wafers of different materials which will survive for a few hundred millennia, guaranteed.


Some are trying it on DNA and that takes up a lot less space. (I bet Apple will still demand insane prices ;) )
Maybe call them