…Uplink ready for upload to the store.
And then I was so tired I made a bonehead mistake and LOST the Faery Moon main file for the revision of the Faery Moon files. I was beyond upset.
And then I downloaded (they offer a refund it if doesn’t work) a file recovery program: it ran for over 5 hours of my day, tying up my computer, and finally, when it finished, confronted with non-results, I pushed ‘finish’ —it ‘finished all right’. It vanished, tanking 5 hours of data collection, no undo, and there I was. I’m writing to File Recovery wanting my money back.
In the meanwhile Jane has gallantly tried to patch the best file we can find. Epub has failed. PDF has failed. We are hoping for rtf or txt to save us.
I am now in Missoula and on wireless!!!(happy yellow circle)
Yay!
On an unrelated issue, ever since yesterday your entries get truncated on the blogs RSS feed. It doesn’t happen with the comments, only with the entries.
It’s good to be cautious which programs you choose to download and use. Especially in areas like file recovery there are a lot of expensive but junky programs around.
My advice:
1. Check the Recycle Bin. If you simply deleted the file it will be in the Recycle Bin and you can imply right-click on it and restore it.
2. If you were working in Word Perfect or Word or similar, the word processor may have automatically made a backup. Many word processors have this option.
3. If it’s a simple recovery, i.e. the file has simply been marked as deleted, but the data has not been overwritten on disk, download this little freeware program. It is a free, tiny program which needs no installation, and won’t cause any problems. It will run in a few seconds and list the files which can be easily recovered.
http://www.softperfect.com/products/filerecovery/
This little program is very useful if you have deleted something a few moments ago, it’s not in the Recycle Bin, and you want to get it back quickly. So it’s well worth downloading and keeping somewhere whether you use it in this case or not.
4. A more sophisticated program, which is also freeware (you can make a donation if you like), and which has excellent independent reviews, and is written by a company with a good reputation, is Recuva. It is fast and efficient. It also has a deepscan option for files which may be partially overwritten.
http://www.piriform.com/recuva
Hope this helps.
I also have found the blogs truncated on RSS feed. it would be convenient if this could be changed back.
Hope the file recovery works.
Ian
How terrible. My utter sympathies.
It’s going to be slow. But we’ll get it.
I read an article that compared being dead tired to the effects of being drunk. It was in the context of driving, but if I applied it to my regular activities…oh dear. It explains quite a bit. Get some rest! You’re inebriated with exhaustion and capable of anything. My personal favorite thing to do is to finish something in Photoshop and then watch my hand move the mouse to the “x” on the side of the screen and close it without saving it. I can see it happening but can’t stop it. Now I know what is to blame.
Cj have you checked out previews for Avatar the movie by James Cameron it’s cool!!!
I wish they could turn your Foreigner series in to a sci-fi series on Tv or big screen!!!!
Quote:I wish they could turn your Foreigner series in to a sci-fi series on Tv or big screen!!!!
Casting would be fun…how ’bout Judy Dench as ‘Sidi?
Oh yes! Not quite thin enough but has the right attitude.
Unfortunately I think most of CJ’s work would have to be done in animation (unforunate in that it’s the only way to show the disparate people involved, and animation is both expensive and difficult to sell as ‘grown up’ movie material). Of course, high-end movies like Avatar are sellable to the right audience but are fiendishly expensive.
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Even a ‘simple’ movie like The Faded Sun (simple in the similarity of humanoid appearance of all but the Regul) would be difficult to do, though I would cheerfully pay a lot more to see such a movie than I am to see the usual Hollyweird crapola.
Jeff
Oh no!!How frustrating! Green Wyvern’s solution
sounds do-able. I have used some ‘soft’ programs
and they work very well and quietly.
My BBC feed had a great article about the man who built the language for Avatar.
Usually Sci-Fi pictures bear no resemblance to
the book it supposedly depicts.
Wireless is WONDERFUL,but my email can’t send or
receive. The wireless Guru will come later…
(grinning,bouncing,yellow circle)
Oh, I don’t know about the animation. Chanur’s methane breathers might be a challenge.
But Foreigner? A lot of the Union/Alliance universe, Cyteen? Thieves World stuff.
There’s a lot of potential on this site.
But it’s a world I suspect that former TV script writer/producer George RR Martin knows better than almost anyone else in the spec fiction field these days. If his pilot does well (they just finished shooting) then it might open a few more opportunities. And he never claimed to be counting on Hollywood interest.
Problem is, Hollywood is nothing even very salable authors can count on. Look at the messes they made of Heinlein’s work, before and after his demise trying to be artsy at the end. And to me the most obvious movies they ignored (Double Star, for example, would have required an interest in character development!). If it happens, great, but it really is a roulette situation.
It was all working fine for me last night – downloaded Faery moon, and checked it on the Reader. Looks good. Not perfectly formatted, but pretty close. Some paragragh breaks are a full line of space, and some are just the line below. Very very minor quibble. The file was still there is the important thing.