Latest Update: (March 4th 2025)
"I usually refrain from posting bad news, but it’s really a terrible time for me right now.
I was in the middle of recording a tutorial for a new-ish type of VFX I’m doing for TOTM when the rack that holds my hard drives fell to the floor, along with the drives, of course.
Out of 8 HDDs, 2 of the most important ones no longer work—the one with all my personal data (including all of the family photos and early works), and the one with half of the TOTM reshoots, sounds, and source footage.
Luckily, the disk with the Premiere and Nuke project files survived, so in theory, I can re-link everything if I manage to recover any data from the failed drives.
Overall, the last few weeks haven’t been great, to be honest, and this seems to be the culmination…
I’ll see what kind of work I can still do so I don’t waste my time waiting for a solution, but good old Murphy sure is trying to make it difficult for me…"
-PixelJoker95
Oh no. What an absolute disaster. As someone who has lost significant amounts of editing data in 2 separate hardware failures, I can fully sympathise with him.
I really hope he can rescue the files. It would be a crime if this edit didn’t get completed.