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9 years ago
I was gathering my files to put my 2016 book together (general adult furry Folio no. 6) when I find out that in my near 2-month-absence from home it seems like one of my old archive IDE drives died. The last IDE drives I kept in rotation. The files are safe - most of the PSDs from the last several years are in fact. No... the problem is that I lost all of my old work. I already lost all of my old PSDs once due to Power/HD failure but what I lost this time are, well, every psd. The history of my art from when I started drawing to... 2010 basically. Nothing important but it held a lot of sentimental value. I never thought it important enough to back up redundantly like I do everything else now but now I find myself missing it. Missing the old text files with tons and tons of random notes/ ideas. Missing screenshots from when I used to play online games in highschool with friends, funny battlenet screengrabs and MMO achievement videos and funny/ memorable vent/TS recordings. It's wierd... I haven't felt this sad version of nostolgia since I graduated highschool and it had me busy for a good few days (I finally got back on the 15th, which is when I found out the drive died). I did what I could but it's fact of life. The drive was roughly 8 years old so this was about as long as I could have expected it to go.
That aside I've been dealing with an identity/ theft issue. Won't go full on in the details about what it is or how but luckily my bank had my back on this and the investigation is ongoing. I know who could have done it I just don't have any proof. It didn't have any real negative impact on me, the bank protected me from suffering the consequences, it's just the infraction on my privacy is.... bothersome and was annoying to have to deal with. I also noticed a few things missing too that I didn't notice before. Again, no details, I'm just going to an inventory on everything this person may or may not have done to remind myself that the benefit of the doubt I often give is something that has to be earned.
There has also been a ton of sleeping involved. Spending almost two months away from home can do that to a person. I am indeed home though and things are falling back into place.
That aside I've been dealing with an identity/ theft issue. Won't go full on in the details about what it is or how but luckily my bank had my back on this and the investigation is ongoing. I know who could have done it I just don't have any proof. It didn't have any real negative impact on me, the bank protected me from suffering the consequences, it's just the infraction on my privacy is.... bothersome and was annoying to have to deal with. I also noticed a few things missing too that I didn't notice before. Again, no details, I'm just going to an inventory on everything this person may or may not have done to remind myself that the benefit of the doubt I often give is something that has to be earned.
There has also been a ton of sleeping involved. Spending almost two months away from home can do that to a person. I am indeed home though and things are falling back into place.
Basically puts a lock on opening any account in your name where they'd have to look up your credit score, that you can temporarily unlock when needed:
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/06/.....curity-freeze/
Sleeping and getting your pool back into order I hope! Because dozing by the pool is also a nice past time to get rid of stress. =3
Sorry you lost your stuff, I can sympathize, I lost all of my PSDs from 2008-2011 due to a file transfer gone wrong, there were some of my favourites pieces of my own work among them and all I have of them anymore are the web versions. I feel you, it really sucks :(
Also that identity thief issue just sucks, hope it'll get solved quickly and the culprit can be caught. You should definitely press charges against 'unknown', but you certainly can stress your suspicion even if you don't have proof, that's the cops' job to figure out.
Anyway, good to hear from you again, and all the best to you!
Even more sorry to hear about the loss of all those files.. I had to get a MacBook Pro for college, and moved all my files over to it before I went off to college. The HD then proceeded to die after the first year, so I lost pretty much everything from highschool up until about that point. I didn't have the money for a back-up HD back then.. While they won't be the same, of course, you'll have new memories and come up with new awesome ideas in the future~
Glad to hear you're getting all that rest in, especially under all this stress. Here's to everything getting back into place soon!
I know that same feel when it comes to losing old old artwork. I have a very old flashdrive I still hope to retrieve the work because it had a lot of my style change progress during those years :x when I first started drawing with a tablet.
I'm glad you're back safe. Sucks big time you had to come home to shit. *hugs*
I hope everything becomes right as rain soon.
i have 2 tb on it
mechanical drives always gonna fail
I should probably back my stuff up somewhere...