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Hey anons--I hate be guilty of soapboxing or redditor-esque behavior, but I need to ask for help, and early in this general's lifetime seems to be the best place to be seen (cue the soapboxing).
First: if you have anything of mine from past threads saved--PNG, with or without metadata, etc.--catbox it or otherwise link it.
You may've noticed I, Elf-anon (one of my more flattering nicknames from the /hdg/ and then /edg/), was absent from at least the last thread. Over the weekend, I had a weather-related car accident (sole party involved, thankfully) that I was just reported did total my car. Fucking construction in an unexpected rain storm (on a route I've driven more than a hundred times otherwise); walked out of the wreck, someone saw me and called 911, family took me to immediate care the next day, no broken bones, etc. That's not that interesting. Unsurprisingly, not really in the mood to gen. I took the following weekday off work (absurd amount of sick time saved up) and, in a turnaround, got bored of lying on a heatpad and thought I'd go work on some drive cloning/backup management/etc., I'd been putting off for a while. And this is where I fucked up, in a very different way: whether my backpain-distracted mind or some other form of user error, I obliterated the partition on the portable SSD I'd been genning on for the better part of the last 2 years.
Whoops. And to put the cherry on the user-idiocy error, I realized my offline backup option had completely failed. So, all my in-progress gens, models, metadata, etc., wiped out. Got basically nothing except some worthless, pre-NAI archived images from a data recovery guy I'd trust (I don't blame him, I think I just fucked up that badly and I'm not going to pay hundreds for some sort of tech forensics that probably won't work anyway). Not the first anon to have that happened to them, not the first one to be careless and fail to (successfully) backup.
