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2 years ago
So This is just a little notice as well as letting people know I'm still alive LOL. If you guys haven't noticed yet, I'm quite the shy person. I never like posting my troubles and hate asking for help, even if its to get thoughts off my chest (yeah its very unhealthy).
Anyway, I'm gonna give a recap: Last year my computer was terribly on the fritz and my tablet kicked the bucket. I was graciously given a new tablet (I love it to death) and bought a new mini computer with enough power to last me another 10 years of work. Although I didn't reach my goal on gofundme, I am currently still able to hook the new computer up through my old computer's hdmi connection and use the old machine as a monitor. Still need a new set of a keyboard and mouse but its not as important as what I have now. A year has gone by and I love the new system and took me a while to re-setup the entire art drive on an external.
Next, tax season rolls around, and instead of getting money back, I have to pay (damn Covid restrictions being lifted). 600$ is no easy task. I have to apply for a loan cause I can't afford that. Every penny I get goes to everything I buy for meds, to eat, work on, use, drive, draw, research...EVERYTHING. I have to apply for food stamps cause I have a job, it's just not a w-2 type, and I'm still poor, so no money is withdrawn for taxes and if it had, I would not have enough for food or gas, or any unexpected surprises. What's worse is the beginning of every year is tight. Inspection, registration, oil change maintenance on the car, and taxes drain everything. With how little I make, I shouldn't even BE taxed but I am just because I am self employed and don't get a w-2.
*SIgh* Cue to a couple of weeks ago. What made this year kinda worse was the scare of my life. It triggered my ptsd with my first harddrive failure and lost digital art. So I might have mentioned this before, but I'm very limited on space for working. I have a tiny desk that pretty much holds a computer. I use that desk for drawing, inking, digital coloring, printing, and any other work one needs to with a computer. Welp, I was inking a commission one day on top of my tablet and had my windows explorer open because sometimes I need it up to access other files I was working on digitally that day. Aaaand my elbows seemed to hit some of the buttons on the tablet and after I looked up from inking some, I saw my computer was in the middle of deleting my digital art folder on my harddrive. There was no cancel, just an "x" in the corner to stop it. I tried ctrl-z and nothing happened. That's when I realized, if it was trying to delete a 40 gig file folder, it wouldn't go to recycle, it would just be marked as deleted on the spot. I screamed, I cried, cause half my important files were utterly gone. I had an old backup on google that was missing alot of updated files but I was able to get about 10 gigs back out of the 20 I lost. Then I set about trying to regain the files back. Looks like its gonna cost me 89$ to get the rest of the files back >.<. I'm still livid. And what's worse is now PAYPAL says my cards and bank are invalid and won't send my monthly pay to me. I need to pay bills and pay for the files to get returned and allllll this money problem shit is pissing me off to no end. AAAARGGGG!!!!
Anyway, that's what's goin on with me. Hope y'all are doing better.
EDIT: Updates are in the comments.
Anyway, I'm gonna give a recap: Last year my computer was terribly on the fritz and my tablet kicked the bucket. I was graciously given a new tablet (I love it to death) and bought a new mini computer with enough power to last me another 10 years of work. Although I didn't reach my goal on gofundme, I am currently still able to hook the new computer up through my old computer's hdmi connection and use the old machine as a monitor. Still need a new set of a keyboard and mouse but its not as important as what I have now. A year has gone by and I love the new system and took me a while to re-setup the entire art drive on an external.
Next, tax season rolls around, and instead of getting money back, I have to pay (damn Covid restrictions being lifted). 600$ is no easy task. I have to apply for a loan cause I can't afford that. Every penny I get goes to everything I buy for meds, to eat, work on, use, drive, draw, research...EVERYTHING. I have to apply for food stamps cause I have a job, it's just not a w-2 type, and I'm still poor, so no money is withdrawn for taxes and if it had, I would not have enough for food or gas, or any unexpected surprises. What's worse is the beginning of every year is tight. Inspection, registration, oil change maintenance on the car, and taxes drain everything. With how little I make, I shouldn't even BE taxed but I am just because I am self employed and don't get a w-2.
*SIgh* Cue to a couple of weeks ago. What made this year kinda worse was the scare of my life. It triggered my ptsd with my first harddrive failure and lost digital art. So I might have mentioned this before, but I'm very limited on space for working. I have a tiny desk that pretty much holds a computer. I use that desk for drawing, inking, digital coloring, printing, and any other work one needs to with a computer. Welp, I was inking a commission one day on top of my tablet and had my windows explorer open because sometimes I need it up to access other files I was working on digitally that day. Aaaand my elbows seemed to hit some of the buttons on the tablet and after I looked up from inking some, I saw my computer was in the middle of deleting my digital art folder on my harddrive. There was no cancel, just an "x" in the corner to stop it. I tried ctrl-z and nothing happened. That's when I realized, if it was trying to delete a 40 gig file folder, it wouldn't go to recycle, it would just be marked as deleted on the spot. I screamed, I cried, cause half my important files were utterly gone. I had an old backup on google that was missing alot of updated files but I was able to get about 10 gigs back out of the 20 I lost. Then I set about trying to regain the files back. Looks like its gonna cost me 89$ to get the rest of the files back >.<. I'm still livid. And what's worse is now PAYPAL says my cards and bank are invalid and won't send my monthly pay to me. I need to pay bills and pay for the files to get returned and allllll this money problem shit is pissing me off to no end. AAAARGGGG!!!!
Anyway, that's what's goin on with me. Hope y'all are doing better.
EDIT: Updates are in the comments.
But i stii haven't learned from that. All the pictures i'm currently working aren't backed up to my external drives, so...yeah, i'd better get that done. :(
Not so easy with deleted files, but i did a quick search and found this :
https://www.lifewire.com/free-data-.....-tools-2622893
It looks like their number one reviewed program "Recuva" could do the job. Might be worth trying before paying for recovery.
May i help a bit by posting a signal-boost journal ? And, if "yes", is your Go Fund Me page still accepting donations? A page for commission rates/terms ? Other info ?
Re Taxes : Back in my 20's i had some bad tax advice and ended up owing more money than i had on hand - the IRS had a quarterly payment plan that was workable. Maybe they still do that ?
Re File Recovery : Once you've recovered all you can with your current software it might be worth trying "Recuva" for a second pass as it might use different methods/algorithms/etc. Never had to do deletion recovery, so just a guess.
Just got signal boost journal up. it's too short - i didn't get enough sleep last night then worked late so brain not do smart word stuff. i'll try to edit it or do a follow up or something.
^_^
Sending note with follow-up ideas.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us.....f-7dcf51cc8bfc
Most important quotes:
Restore deleted files and folders or restore a file or folder to a previous state.
Navigate to the folder that used to contain the file or folder, right-click it, and then select Restore previous versions. If the folder was at the top level of a drive, for example C:\, right-click the drive, and then select Restore previous versions.
You'll see a list of available previous versions of the file or folder. The list will include files saved on a backup (if you are using Windows Backup to back up your files) as well as restore points, if both types are available.
Warning: The file or folder replaces the current version on your computer, and the replacement can't be undone.
Note: If the Restore button is unavailable, you can't restore a previous version of the file or folder to its original location. You might be able to open it or save it to a different location.
It may or may not have them, but it's fairly easy to use and definitely worth looking at. Just be mindful/careful when clicking around not to overwrite anything you don't want to overwrite, obviously.
Then of course, make sure to make backups in the future. Once a month, or at least whenever you can get to it.
Good luck with things... it stinks when life kicks one in the face, it keeps happening to me >_<