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maybe get all your important stuff out your sl mainfolder before u update to 1.4?!!
Eelco Byrne
Registered User
Join date: 4 Jun 2004
Posts: 5
06-15-2004 08:51
Wanna warn u all that if u got any foreign maps and files (like i use(d) to store my textures there!) in your second life mainfolder and you gonna update to 1.4 , they will be gone!
8/
lost all textures that i had made .
probably most already know this :)
well, this one goes out to all the not-nowers,
hope i can save some peep from doin the same!
Siobhan Taylor
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Join date: 13 Aug 2003
Posts: 5,476
06-15-2004 09:12
Would be a bit late if it was true since SL's been down for hours.

Fortunately, it's not... so
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Cubey Terra
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Join date: 6 Sep 2003
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06-15-2004 09:22
I think he's referring to the Second Life program folder on our local drive. Eelco, it's always a really really really exceptionally bad idea to store your own files in with program files. Keep them in a separate Documents folder or something that no program is likely to erase.
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Siobhan Taylor
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06-15-2004 09:24
Oh that, yeah lol... sorry
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Jon Morgan
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06-15-2004 09:57
From: someone
Originally posted by Cubey Terra
I think he's referring to the Second Life program folder on our local drive. Eelco, it's always a really really really exceptionally bad idea to store your own files in with program files. Keep them in a separate Documents folder or something that no program is likely to erase.

Yeeaaah I just learned this the hard way *sob*.

Hours of work on my "oohhs" and "ahhs" and "i gotta go pee" sound files ... gone.

Hours of work on my "no boobie buildings" and "no lag" and other protest sign textures ... gone.

All-important snapshots of in-game situations ... like, all THREE of them *gasp* ... gone.

Fortunately, everything was uploaded to the server. Is it possible to download back to local hard drive for both sounds and textures?
Siobhan Taylor
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Join date: 13 Aug 2003
Posts: 5,476
06-15-2004 10:09
textures yes, sounds... never tried
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Julia Curie
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Join date: 1 Nov 2003
Posts: 298
06-15-2004 10:11
who is silly enough to keep their sounds/textures in the SL folders itself?..

..wait nevermind.

I never have so I guess I wouldnt know. :D
Olympia Rebus
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Join date: 22 Feb 2004
Posts: 1,831
Re: maybe get all your important stuff out your sl mainfolder before u update to 1.4?!!
06-15-2004 10:13
From: someone
Originally posted by Eelco Byrne
Wanna warn u all that if u got any foreign maps and files (like i use(d) to store my textures there!) in your second life mainfolder and you gonna update to 1.4 , they will be gone!
8/
lost all textures that i had made .
probably most already know this :)
well, this one goes out to all the not-nowers,
hope i can save some peep from doin the same!


Forgive my ingnorance... but does this mean we have to download our foriegn textures (at 10L$ a pop)? Or just that we shouldn't store the original files there?
Siobhan Taylor
Nemesis
Join date: 13 Aug 2003
Posts: 5,476
06-15-2004 10:24
don't store anything useful in a directory who's path starts with <drive-letter>:\Program Files\

that's all
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Julian Fate
80's Pop Star
Join date: 19 Oct 2003
Posts: 1,020
06-15-2004 10:28
Olympia, no, your inventory is safe.

This refers to any textures, clothing, sounds, etc, that you have made and have stored in the SL folder on your computer. When you install a new version it will wipe out everything in your SL folder. Make sure if you have anything stored in that folder that you move it out before you update. It won't affect anything in your actual avatar's inventory in the game however.
Eelco Byrne
Registered User
Join date: 4 Jun 2004
Posts: 5
06-16-2004 19:22
got most back and keepin it miles away from my second life directory :))
Siggy Romulus
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Join date: 22 Sep 2003
Posts: 5,711
06-16-2004 19:44
All my second life stuff that I keep locally I have in My Documents under a directory 'Second Life'...

Just seemed logical to do it that way -- as a Unix Head I've always thought keeping all your personal stuff in the same place as the application as a bit -- well -- insane.

Siggy.
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Loki Pico
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Join date: 20 Jun 2003
Posts: 1,938
06-16-2004 19:49
Just curious...

If you have lost your personal files in this manner, is it possible to do a System Restore (winodws feature) to roll back to a time before you did the update and get those files back?