My hard drive died

#1 Wraith

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Posted 19 December 2004 - 10:26 PM

Yes, the topic is me swearing.

Bad news. One of my hard drives died, and it happened to be the one that XPlode3 was stored on.
The last backup I made of my whole source tree was back when I had a half-baked XPlode2.... so I get to do it ALLLLLL again.

Hopefully I will have something usable within a week, but not promises.

*mightily p***ed off*

#2 MCT

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Posted 19 December 2004 - 10:36 PM

that sucks, sorry 2 hear that

but take your time

#3 Wraith

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Posted 20 December 2004 - 01:22 AM

Just a note... XPlode will now be using a more conformant XML parser... and it TELLS you what you get wrong.

Example:

<test>This is a long **** test of something & something.</test>

Error:

Quote

Ill-formed entity reference in text section (Rule 68).

From XML Spec:
http://www.w3.org/TR...#sec-references

Quote

[68] EntityRef ::= '&' Name ';' [WFC: Entity Declared]
[VC: Entity Declared]
[WFC: Parsed Entity]
[WFC: No Recursion]

I assume that nobody gets it.... but you can figure out what it means from the spec.

i.e. The error was the & should be & as per normal.

Yes it's been a long day, so this post may not be understandable...

#4 Alanoll

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Posted 20 December 2004 - 01:59 AM

man, I'm really sorry. I know what it's like. Had my harddrive fail on me with all my Winamp MSI stuff on it...

sure hope this doesn't hinder my little project....

#5 Cybermurder

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Posted 20 December 2004 - 10:47 AM

i´m sorry, too. hard drives crashs often on coding projects...

#6 RyanVM

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Posted 03 January 2005 - 08:49 AM

RAID1 is your friend. Otherwise, a program like SecondCopy can be a life saver. I personally have my MSFN stuff saved to two different hard drives on my system.

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