Reminder to everyone!!!

[Harlequin_666 17]

Backup your plugins folder.

 

Now I'm stuck redownloading 1 gig of BAT's because I did not

 

...and I have a nice Matrox external backup drive, which makes it even more silly that I did not

[SamFlash 0]

Good warning to everybody.  Saving and backing up are essential to life on a computer because one day it will happen to all of us.  No one is exempt.

[mrbisonm 1,620]

You bet and You're right!

I have been saying all kinds of words to myself (mostly non-catholic) ever since my hard-drive C/: went down ( I have the game itself on D/: drive).

I can't continue my CJ Nexis of Genesis because of this for the moment, because the game crashes on me, too many files missing. I have to find them all and geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez, that's is timetaking and NOT fun anymore.

 

Do yourself a favour, just in case, make a back-up or save on another hard-drive.

[Nardo69 51]

Everytime I release my pic folder on a city a copy of my CJ goes there, too! And every three months a plugin backup ...

I had my Oh NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHH experience before I bought RH when a malworking RAM module destroyed any kind of data whil saving including my first SC4 regions (allthough I don't know today if this is a pity or a kind of mercy ...[)

There had been too much great CJs ended because of harddisk problems....

Bernhard

[DuskTrooper 314]

Yeah, I found this out the hard way, back in September 2004, when my computer had to be refrmatted due to a virus, or somethging. Luckily, due to some software, I was able to get my stuff back!

[Superstar 69]

I lost it before, had over a GB of plugins in there! Though I think it was for the best, cause I redownloaded everything again and this tme created sub folders so it's a lot easier moving around my plugin folder

Which reminds me, off to back that up

[FavreKev04 13]

Ya I have a cd with all my stuff backed up and every week I mix sure my backup cd is up to date. That folder is like my holy bibel, I just don't know what I would do with out it.

[Rochefort 13]

Yep, I've lost a whole bunch of stuff myself when my hard drive burned out before christmas.

Its such a common occurance, you'd have thought we'd all back up as habit by now, but to prove a point..I haven't backed up once since the burn out I suffered.

 

Shame on me. 

[Rymac91 15]

I've seen 8 Cj's been killed by hard drive problems...After that Hard drive Failure scare I've been trying to save up to by a 40Gb hard drive for my Pc to back up my files...I mean I would backup my files now if I could....but since I have the largest hard drive in the house...it kinda makes it hard to back up.

[1dera3 28]

Already done. Good thing, too... a week later it crashed... Very nice to remind people. (I burned mine to a CD. I have only 210 MB worth. ) It would forever to redownload all that stuff.

//1D3

[joeynymets 19]

Very good reminder! its is very important now because, acording to wikipedia, a virus that can destroy your system if you dont take imediate action is set to go off Feb. 3rd.

 

Heres the link to where it says its set to go off, scoll down to predicted and schedualed events:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006

 

Heres the link about the virus:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyxem

 

[GMT 389]

i had my oh-no-experience a couple of weeks ago. my entire hdd crashed...

luckily i made a backup on my 2 plugin folders and the biggest region (my actual cj) just a few days before... just like i knew that something bad will happen...

let's say i was one of the lucky guys

[offgreen 1]

Well I still have all my downloads on another drive. So if I did something (or was stupid enough to download a virus) I guess I have to go back and click a bunch of auto-installers and re-extract everything. Still, better than re-downloading.

[JustinHayward 10]

Virus protection, so very very important nowadays, its not only plugins you could lose but well ,,,,,,,,,,,, everything. I learnt the hardway too,,,,, gotta do back ups ,,,,,, well done to the guy who started the thread,,, good reminder !!

[newyorkstate 6]

Good, no great, no EXCELENT idea!i will do so right away! it's happened to me 3 times, and i can't believe i STILL never did it!

[sendarrow 3]

I will do it tomorrow. Now you scared me guys. Instead of playing, I will back it up. It's a promise.

[vidioman 21]

If only I saw this 24 hours ago..

[bltsandwich 8]

when i download the plugins i want, i put them in a partition on my hard drive that i don't use so that all that is visible on the partition is sc4 plugins & mods. i categorize them into folders of type (commerce, civic, residential, industry, etc) and then sub folder them for large areas  (commerce has service and office, transport has each type [road, rail, mono, etc]).

this way, when i have to reinstall everything on my computer, unless i wipe my documents from the C drive (like last week), i don't lose anything. it means i have a stress free environment when i need to reinstall windows.

 

i have about a gig's worth of plugins downloaded (mainly from here), which amounts to about 1.5gig unzipped. one of the advantages of having over 500gb of HDD space!

[Mikeaut1 261]

I really never have problems with dissapearing plugins due to a computer crash etc... but it is always a good thing to do when you are just about to work on a huge city and you have many MB or even GB worth of bats you are about to use.