Don't erase non-SL files in SL directory when patching!
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Hiro Pendragon
bye bye f0rums!
Join date: 22 Jan 2004
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02-05-2004 14:31
From today's patch: From: someone Uninstalling Second Life versions including and after 1.2.11 will not remove any extra files you may have placed in C:\Program Files\SecondLife. However, we encourage you to store your files elsewhere on your computer, perhaps in My Documents. Thank you! Now, can you also not erase any extra files I may have placed there when SecondLife is installed - like, every time it patches? Before I realized this, I lost 2 days worth of work that I had saved to my SecondLife directory on my computer that was erased when SecondLife patched before I could upload all my new textures that I had made/downloaded. I now store them in a seperate directory, but there are plenty of other people who might not be aware of this (like new players, for instance) that could find themselves, like I was, losing lots of hours of work / snapshots / etc. -Hiro Pendragon Varney 200, 200 |
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Julia Curie
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Join date: 1 Nov 2003
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02-05-2004 14:39
Wow, never even knew this existed. I've always saved my files in other folders not associated with the second life one so I've never had that problem. That sucks for those who did.  |
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Michael Small
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02-05-2004 16:14
Could we also not overwrite colors.ini , or at least make a backup copy of the one being replaced prior to overwriting it?
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Oz Spade
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02-05-2004 19:56
Personaly I've never kept any files for a program in the program folder. What makes people do that? Out of curiosity. I've always kept them seperate because it just seemed to make more sense.  But yeah auto-backup of things like colors.ini and/or the other things we can change if we did change would be nice.
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Julia Curie
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02-05-2004 20:06
Hehe, guess you are like me then Oz. I'm always telling Sio to back her stuff up cuz Miss Clutz (that's me) keeps deleting or overturning her permissions and making them mine (thus destroying the only original copy and having to start over).
I always back up before experimenting that way I have a safety net if I boo-boo. : P
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Carnildo Greenacre
Flight Engineer
Join date: 15 Nov 2003
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02-06-2004 00:01
From: someone Originally posted by Oz Spade
Personaly I've never kept any files for a program in the program folder. What makes people do that? Out of curiosity. Inertia. Back in the MS-DOS and Windows 3.1 days, you'd keep your files in the program folder because you could find them fastest that way: opening and saving files defaulted to the program's directory.
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Kris Ritter
paradoxical embolism
Join date: 31 Oct 2003
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I said that before...
02-06-2004 00:13
btw, regarding installs... Yup. I already posted about this.
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Catherine Omega
Geometry Ninja
Join date: 10 Jan 2003
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02-06-2004 11:37
I would think that a "do you want to back up your current SL installation, including any files you may have saved to the SL directory" dialog box in the installer would be good, but really, the easiest solution here is to NOT SAVE THINGS IN THE SL DIRECTORY!  It's non-standard and certainly not idiot-proof, but users shouldn't be saving things there anyway. Oh, and before I see any "Wahhh, Catherine called me an idiot!" posts, it happened to me too with my custom config files, but I learned from it and didn't repeat my mistake. Well, once.  |