Log inSSD Crash update
I'm finally back into my emails. Mega.nz and Subscribestar account after my Computer's SSD Drive lost it's read address a month or so ago, requiring a full FDisk reformat and rebuilding from scratch. (please factor in a couple of weeks of ragequit, I was Not OK with that.) The good news is I have finally rebuilt everything, all the content has been rescued including the Farmageddon story and assets and I can finally bring you content again on a stable operating system, it's a big deal, and I'm sorry for the disruption. I'm also an uncle now, it's a girl!
Rebuilding was an ordeal - I used a lot of programs and things that are no longer freely available and the list of things that needed to be done to restore The Studio to working order exactly as before reads like the 12 tasks of hercules. Including for example finding/dowloading a discontinued 2021 version of Daz studio 4.16 (every version after breaks my lighting rigs) plus a non subscription version of photoshop, and zbrush that I could trust not to be infested, all rarer than hens teeth. Then rebuild the asseet folders for daz in exactly the same file format as before so saved scenes would load. Rekey all my macro commands, restore the workspace layout, recover the fonts i use for narration, dig up a 9 year old mega.nz password - etc. etc. ad nauseum.
I also wanted to get to the bottom of the random windows 11 reboot issue that had been plaguing me for months - I'd soldiered on occasionally losing hours of work until the issue finally corrupted the boot sector, which was Not OK. I didn't want that to happen again I tore the computer apart looking for hardware faults but eventually found out a few days ago that the windows search indexer that was causing the reboots. It's been stable for days since I stopped it from running scheduled tasks. I'm so sick of windows 11 AI slop gremlins like this that I actually considered trying Linux - but that would take even longer and I'm just out of patience for anything beyond getting back into the studio and making content again.
I've dropped the 4.16 Daz studio installer into the archive vault for artists who want to use ghost lights, or want a version of Daz3d not infested with A.I - I didn't find any malware but as it's not from the official store I can't supply a guarantee beyond my own endorsement and use.
Rebuilding was an ordeal - I used a lot of programs and things that are no longer freely available and the list of things that needed to be done to restore The Studio to working order exactly as before reads like the 12 tasks of hercules. Including for example finding/dowloading a discontinued 2021 version of Daz studio 4.16 (every version after breaks my lighting rigs) plus a non subscription version of photoshop, and zbrush that I could trust not to be infested, all rarer than hens teeth. Then rebuild the asseet folders for daz in exactly the same file format as before so saved scenes would load. Rekey all my macro commands, restore the workspace layout, recover the fonts i use for narration, dig up a 9 year old mega.nz password - etc. etc. ad nauseum.
I also wanted to get to the bottom of the random windows 11 reboot issue that had been plaguing me for months - I'd soldiered on occasionally losing hours of work until the issue finally corrupted the boot sector, which was Not OK. I didn't want that to happen again I tore the computer apart looking for hardware faults but eventually found out a few days ago that the windows search indexer that was causing the reboots. It's been stable for days since I stopped it from running scheduled tasks. I'm so sick of windows 11 AI slop gremlins like this that I actually considered trying Linux - but that would take even longer and I'm just out of patience for anything beyond getting back into the studio and making content again.
I've dropped the 4.16 Daz studio installer into the archive vault for artists who want to use ghost lights, or want a version of Daz3d not infested with A.I - I didn't find any malware but as it's not from the official store I can't supply a guarantee beyond my own endorsement and use.
Congrats on becoming an uncle.
On the hardware crash problem, I'd recommend an external hard drive. It helped me recover quickly the last time my OS went berserk and my computers HD went dead.
Regardless, good luck on the continued artwork.
Curse you Billy Gates!
Congrats on being an uncle, Microslop is trash, that's why they're talking about selling Xbox, I mean XBOX.
You're a legend, sad it happened, glad to see you pull through!
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