Star Wars 1977 releases on 35mm — Page 29

I would definitely help pitch in a few Empirial credits. Poita has done so much for this forum, it’s nuts!

I definitely know how you feel, poita. I’m really sorry to hear that happen to you!

That just stinks. I really wish I could help out, but I’m not in a position to do anything, and what’s lost is lost. This stuff happening just makes me afraid that I’ll lose all of my files in a system failure of some sort. Best of luck to you, Poita.

I’ve lost a lot to drive crashes. I had a set of rips of the English dub of Pretty Cure - good audio, too - that just can’t be found anymore. HDTV rips of Tenkai Knights in Japanese. Episodes of classic Doraemon. Almost lost my work subbing one of the Doraemon movies, but I had that backed up offsite. I’ve started to get very paranoid since then. 😕

poita said:

Thanks for the suggestion, I am currently deciding whether to take it as a sign from the gods and bow out of the hobby, or start over.

Maybe just rearrange your priorities a bit? I know you’ve put far too much money into this hobby to just call it quits.

Good to hear that a lot of the data was non-vital, but I know it still sucks to lose everything like that. Maybe some of it can be repaired.

I have sent the drives off for a free assessment at a data recovery company I used to work for, but I’m not holding out a lot of hope. I would love to get the last half year of work back.

I already tried swapping the PC boards, they are external and an easy swap-out, but the drives didn’t even spin up so I think it probably fried the motors/head mechanism.

Hope the data recovery is successful. In the meantime, I just read this and found it pertinent:

http://gizmodo.com/optical-data-storage-squeezes-360tb-on-to-a-quartz-disc-1759359652

Dear God, the news of this massive loss is devastating! We could do with a few quartz discs right about now!

I’m VERY sorry to hear about this Poita. Is it possible that your homeowner’s insurance could help replace the damaged items? I don’t know exactly how that works, or what is/isn’t covered but it might be worth a phone call.

Best of luck and hang in there. 😃

For any Aussies on the forum…
GIO Insurance are a pack of dicks!

I have been fighting with them for the past week, despite the computer equipment being listed with a value, they are disputing it, saying that this is a graphics workstation, not a ‘home computer’ and would have required separate listing and approval. My solicitor does not think that we can make them pay.
So to anyone else with expensive computer gear, notify your insurance company with an itemised list and get it in writing from them that it is explicitly covered, apparently anything less than that and they can weasle out of it.

This is absolutely heartbreaking to read. As someone who lost months of work in the past I can feel your pain. In fact I got out of working in 3D animation just because of how much stuff I lost to a hard drive catastrophe. If I can give you any advice it would be not to give up the hobby. It’s the one thing I regret more than losing all my work. Hang in there man, we’re all pulling for you.

poita said:

For any Aussies on the forum…
GIO Insurance are a pack of dicks!

I have been fighting with them for the past week, despite the computer equipment being listed with a value, they are disputing it, saying that this is a graphics workstation, not a ‘home computer’ and would have required separate listing and approval. My solicitor does not think that we can make them pay.
So to anyone else with expensive computer gear, notify your insurance company with an itemised list and get it in writing from them that it is explicitly covered, apparently anything less than that and they can weasle out of it.

Yeah, all insurance companies are a pack of dicks. I’m sure your solicitor has advised that you escalate the complaint and then further escalate it to the Ombudsman who can potentially make them pay if they find in your favour.

I am currently deciding whether to take it as a sign from the gods and bow out of the hobby, or start over. I lost so much work.

If you’d like another suggestion- if your data is lost then perhaps start on a new project for now and come back to what you had been working on later.

I’m very sorry to hear about your misfortune, if I was a religious person I’d be demanding that my deity set things right! 😃

I am going to be withdrawing from the forums here, the equipment destruction has given me reason to pause, and to be honest, the current media noise re Star Wars and fan restoration has me concerned as well.
My work has always been about preservation, both helping people with resources and technique to learn how to do it themselves, and to undertake my own preservation projects to help ensure the films I love are not lost forever. I have no interest in distributing restorations, my only goal is preservation of films that have not already been preserved.

I have thought a lot about my resources, and have decided not to make any scans I have done myself available to anyone that is not working directly in the preservation field, but feel free to contact me if you have an educational or study use, or anything else that would fall under fair usage laws. Harmy has access to the same resources that I do, and I am sure he will continue to do great work with them.

I will continue my own preservation work and rebuild my gear, and will probably setup a simple preservation website or join an existing one soon, so I am not becoming a hermit or anything, but won’t be spnding as much time online.

A big thanks to everyone on the OT forums, I have had a great time and learned so much from everyone here, and to everyone that helped me out with HDDs and resources, you will not be forgotten, I’ll keep you all in the loop as my work progresses.

This wasn’t an easy decision, I do spend an inordinate amount of time in these forums, but life has also been getting increasingly difficult, my main employer hit hard times and has let most staff go, including me, and as many of you know, one of my four daughters is physically and mentally disabled, and as she hits puberty, she has become far more difficult to look after, imagine someone who is mentally an 18 month old, that is 5 foot tall, and incredibly strong, that is simultaneously going through the both the tantrum phase of ‘the terrible twos’ and the throws of hormones and mood swings of a teenager, coupled with random violent outbursts, and you can see how it puts a lot of stress on the family, especially when you also have a three year old daughter, safety is also a real concern.

So I have decided that I probably should spend more time on family stuff, and less time online, so this seems as good a time as any to start doing exactly that.

Thanks again to everyone here that has enriched my knowledge and life in so many ways, it has been a joy and priveledge to call you my friends, even though I never met a single one of you in the real world 😃

Cheers, and goodbye

-Peter