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[M. Rieder]

Because Terra coppa always saves the area.  So if you make a mistake, unless you have a backup, you are hosed.

[painofdungeoneternal]

Work in directory mode and use some automated method of backing up your files. ( paid version of drop box for example allows you to keep a history of all revisions but a lot )

Failing that copy to a thumb drive at least daily or upon major updates.

( Module mode is really not good for backing up as then it has to do the entire module and each element is not something things like SVN, Dropbox can treat separately )

[M. Rieder]

Yes, yes, yes. Directory mode with frequent back-ups is strongly recommended. I wish I had the resources to havea paid subscription to dropbox.

[Dann-J]

I personally make a copy of my module every time I successfully save a change (right-click, drag, 'copy here'). I've lost too much work because the %$@# toolset has crashed and corrupted the module halfway through a save, and my last backup to a USB stick was a day old. Unfortunately you learn these things the hard way.

[Morbane]

I'm running win7/32 and the toolset is pretty stable - BUT - it still crashes - it did in a save once and the area I was working on got corrupted - I make back-ups every 4 or 5 hours more if I am particularly productive - especially if it is dialog. Way back when I had to reinstall nwn2 and all the expacs, patches, etc. I didnt make a backup of myDocuments/Nwn2. Lost tons of work that time but it has been a while and much has been learned - the hard way. Now everything gets backed up on a 750gig usb harddrive.

Modifié par Morbane, 02 mai 2011 - 08:27 .

[The Fred]

The worst thing I find about a crash is not being able to remember what I've actually lost. It's very annoying to know that you not only have to do stuff again, you don't actually know what it is.

[Morbane]

The Fred wrote...

The worst thing I find about a crash is not being able to remember what I've actually lost. It's very annoying to know that you not only have to do stuff again, you don't actually know what it is.

So true   

[Shallina]

Always back up your work each time you finishe a major feature.

Even if you do nothing fancy it's wise to save your work once a week on a different drive. Hard drive failure isn't a myth.

Modifié par Shallina, 02 mai 2011 - 12:12 .

[rjshae]

Shallina wrote...

Always back up your work each time you finishe a major feature.

Even if you do nothing fancy it's wise to save your work once a week on a different drive. Hard drive failure isn't a myth.

Yes, you don't want to end up like poor Margot Kidder (who had a meltdown after her hard drive got wiped by a virus).

[Kaldor Silverwand]

rjshae wrote...
Yes, you don't want to end up like poor Margot Kidder (who had a meltdown after her hard drive got wiped by a virus).

Seems like there is potential for a joke in that story somewhere.

Regards

[Spellfizzle]

Yes the other admins at SoD can back up this claim of backing up your work because this has happened to me atleast 6 times lol, and yes I fumed for a good 2 hours each time I made this mistake. I had lost a great deal of work due to not backing up my saves and also not working in directory mode. Pain in the arse at first but saves you days if not weeks worth of work to simply make extra copies of your saves and work in DIRECTORY mode.