I don’t have a sad clown face… so you’ll have to make due with PGSM-era Usagi-chan’s face getting squished by teacher… which is almost the same thing. It more than befits the “wonderful” piece of business that took place this past weekend that I am less than thrilled to declare now because it involves pure, unadulterated human error and stupidity… on my end.
So I was clearing out some flash drives and memory cards, moving some old camcorder footage over to a back-up hard drive. The way I found myself working was I’d copy the files over to the new drive and then format the card. Yeah, well, in a state of machination and stupdity, I clicked on the wrong thing and ended up formatting the hard drive.
That hard drive had a bunch of VEGAS project files for future video fodder.
The lesson of “always make a back-up” doesn’t help when the back-up drive is the thing getting wiped.
Now the good news is that some of the key elements were restored using a file recovery software… not everything because I’m an idiot, but enough that I can salvage what’s there. The key thing on the VEGAS front is that none of the “big” projects were on the drive – Order Of Ecclesia has dodged that lethal bullet and is up and running for Friday. However, there’s a bunch of camcorder footage that HAS been lost to the annals of time, some of which I have copies of elsewhere since they’ve been included in other video projectiles, but others that, sadly, have been lost the annals of time and space.
Moral of the story – stay awake, stay aware, and don’t go into a routine in a machine-like manner.
Oh well… back to the drawing board.
dtm666 