So, I was checking my youtube profile today for new comments/subscribers... and someone had commented on the the video I have up of the slower/older version of Final Flight... They were asking me to upload the older version here, or even put it on Amazon so they could buy it.
So.. I was happy, I promptly opened up my projects folder and scrolled down to where both the project file and the MP3 of the song should be....
...To find that they were both missing.
I have recently reformatted my computer... and as always, no matter how hard you try to back everything up... you always seem to miss something. In this case, I somehow missed not only the MP3s, but the project files for both the old AND new versions of Final Flight.
This of course is greatly frustrating, because Final Flight was the longest song I have ever written, it was also one of my first adventures into trance... as well as my most popular song with more than 29,000 views on a fan upload on youtube.
This makes me wonder what else I ended up losing when I reformatted... I'm not looking forward to finding out.
PillowPants
Oh wow that's gotta suck.
I remember when I was downloading some stuff on my laptop, I went away to fill my mug and when I came back I tripped on my charging cable And managed to slammed my big heavy glass mug down with enough force on right where the hard drive was and shattered the disc platters,
Which made A interesting sound when the disc shards jammed the motor at 5600RPM and the liquid from my glass mug spilling onto the motherboard causing the entire system to short circuit effective rendering the laptop into a paper weight.
You can try A data recovery tool like recuva ( <a href="http://www.piriform.com/recuva">http://www.piriform.com/recuva</a> ) and see If your able to restore least one of your projects or other stuff you lost.
Back-From-Purgatory
I've tried using data recovery tools before, but honestly, they've never worked for me. They rather can't get the file back because it's in a folder it can't access, or it gets the file back, but it's corrupted.
I might give it a try anyways... would certainly save me having to remake the entire song. Thanks for the suggestion.. I use piriform's CCleaner, works pretty well, I'll give Recuva a try.