Author: A.G.B. Bluemers
Date: 10:19:04 10/23/05
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On October 23, 2005 at 12:07:26, George Tsavdaris wrote: >On October 23, 2005 at 11:53:50, Roger D Davis wrote: > >>On October 23, 2005 at 11:11:28, George Tsavdaris wrote: >> >>>On October 23, 2005 at 09:45:06, robert flesher wrote: >>> >>>>This morning I was forced to format my hardrive after a crash that would not >>>>allow me to restart my computer. Therefore my games, database, and everything >>>>else I had massed over many months has been lost. Indeed a very bad day for me! >>>>Therefore the results of my first encounter between Fruit 2.2 and Shredder 9.1 >>>>will be concluded at 120 games and those results I did post here, with a clear >>>>win for Fruit. However, this has only strengthed my resolve and I will start >>>>another match this evening and will make it even longer perhaps allowing them to >>>>play till 300-500 games. I only regret I did not get the chance to share the >>>>many brilliant games I witnessed, although I did post a few. Remember, anything >>>>important is worth backing up <------lesson learned, Cheers >>> >>>Oh i'm really sorry......The exact same thing happened to me before 1-2 weeks. >>>I've lost the work of many years:-( Don't you feel very disapointed and angry >>>at the same time? I've now made 3 back up's of anything important, but it's too >>>late......... >>> I admire your willingness to continue with even more power! I was too >>>disapointed to try to find copies for my files over the internet...... >>> >>>Best wishes...... >> >>I think it's a shame to lose the work of many years, but let's face it: If the >>work had been THAT important, you would have backed it up. The fact that you >>didn't says something about the work, that it's loss, while annoying, wasn't >>THAT significant. > >The fact in my case say one thing: How moron i was......! > > As for the files i lost: Around 8.000 PDF and 12.000 PS, with mathematic, >programming, Chess and scientific related things, around 880 Chess engines, >19.000 PGN files (with around 47.000.000 Chess games!!!!!), 8.000 pictures, >20.000 music files, 1500 nb(Mathematica) files with very important Mathematical >programs, 300 nb files i created with many nice stuff, a huge Atomic Chess >opening theory i was preparing with around !!!!70 times!!!! more variations than >all known Atomic sites offer and with a line that is probably proves a forced >win for white and much, much more..... > Not the cure of the cancer but still important..... I experienced 2 times a hard disk crash :-((( ,everything was lost. S.M.A.R.T. etc. didn't see a thing. Thats why i have a second hd now as well,ONLY for backup.
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