Starting all over again... again...
LadieStorm
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So I was easing back into mapping, and getting online after being away for a year due to moving and everything else... getting back into the game, so to speak...when my laptop got fried!
Yep... our cat, Loki, lived up to his name. He got impatient with me, for not giving him enough attention... or maybe I wasn't feeding him quickly enough...and so he knocked over an almost empty glass on our dining room table. Notice I said ALMOST empty. He launched it, and the little bit of liquid left inside, right onto the keyboard of my laptop...which, because it was a laptop, seeped down INTO the laptop in a matter of seconds. Bye bye two year old laptop. It figures... my kids have had their laptops for years. They are beat up, tape holding them together, but they still have the ability to function, for the most part. I took great care with mine... after two years, it still looked brand new. And it's dead.
It took us a while, but I finally was able to replace it. Just got my new laptop yesterday. So now I'm in the process of restoring everything I lost.
Good news... most of everything I had was backed up on an external hard drive, so I didn't actually lose much... and know someone that can help me restore everything else, and move it from my old laptop to this one.
Bad news... I, once again, find myself having to download, and reinstall EVERYTHING.
The silver lining in all of this, is that my old laptop was seriously disorganized. I had been taking some time to organize my files, and such. So now, I can set this new laptop up with much better organization than the old one... meaning hopefully I will be able to find things better. Also, I went from an HP to a Lanovo, with a higher processing speed, and better graphics, which hopefully will mean better maps.
So give me a few weeks to get everything set up again... and hopefully I will be back to mapping... once again...
Yep... our cat, Loki, lived up to his name. He got impatient with me, for not giving him enough attention... or maybe I wasn't feeding him quickly enough...and so he knocked over an almost empty glass on our dining room table. Notice I said ALMOST empty. He launched it, and the little bit of liquid left inside, right onto the keyboard of my laptop...which, because it was a laptop, seeped down INTO the laptop in a matter of seconds. Bye bye two year old laptop. It figures... my kids have had their laptops for years. They are beat up, tape holding them together, but they still have the ability to function, for the most part. I took great care with mine... after two years, it still looked brand new. And it's dead.
It took us a while, but I finally was able to replace it. Just got my new laptop yesterday. So now I'm in the process of restoring everything I lost.
Good news... most of everything I had was backed up on an external hard drive, so I didn't actually lose much... and know someone that can help me restore everything else, and move it from my old laptop to this one.
Bad news... I, once again, find myself having to download, and reinstall EVERYTHING.
The silver lining in all of this, is that my old laptop was seriously disorganized. I had been taking some time to organize my files, and such. So now, I can set this new laptop up with much better organization than the old one... meaning hopefully I will be able to find things better. Also, I went from an HP to a Lanovo, with a higher processing speed, and better graphics, which hopefully will mean better maps.
So give me a few weeks to get everything set up again... and hopefully I will be back to mapping... once again...
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Good Luck !
It boots up, runs... but the screen is black with a few low light level bands running up and down the screen.
I had tech open her up, and remarkably, for the most part it's still intact and in working order... except for about 4 or 5 transistors up in the top left corner of the motherboard. Just a few tiny transistors that are fried. If the tech had the micro precision tool, he might have even been able to fix it... but it's an EXPENSIVE fix. And he doesn't have the needed tool. So it runs fine... there's just no way to see anything.
So now I'm in the process of downloading cc3+ et al, yet again.
It will be lovely to see you doing your thing again
And keep that cat firmly shut OUT of the dining room when you are working!!!!
As for cats, I recommend using large bottom-heavy drinking mugs instead of glasses for everything. My cat loves to push things, but he doesn't manage to topple those. As a bonus, they are also solid enough to survive a fall to the floor, so no glass shards for the poor kitty to step in either.
Anyway, welcome back, and lesson to everyone, backup your stuff!
Did the liquid fall in the screen itself, or maybe one of the ports in the side/back of the laptopt?
As far as I know, most laptops (for years now) have a "system" that drains liquid that falls in the keyboard (it's not 100% effective, but works most of the times, especially for small amounts).
Once I get all the extras installed...again... then I SHOULD be back in business. All of my maps and previous maps are on my external.
It looks like it's going to take me a little bit longer. I have everything installed except the extra textures I found on my own, but after installing all of the addons I had before, I opened up cc3+ to find that ALL of my toolbar icons are missing. Not just the stuff from the Vintryi collection, CSUAC, Bogies stuff and the DA... all of the profantasy toolbar icons are missing too... including the ones along the very top ie: file, view, etc....
So right now, I can't create a new map, because I don't have a button that allows me to access that part of the program.
I've already run the latest updates, and the menu_recovery.bat that comes with the archives. And still nothing. And yes, I know about update 16. I've already downloaded and installed it. Still didn't help... so I've already put in word with the Vintyri project that I'm having problems, and I'm just waiting for them to get back to me. We are on a 6-8 hour time difference I believe. I'll keep everyone posted.
MENUDM @dungeon.mnufollowed by enter on the command line. You can also try other menu files like @fcw32.mnu and @city.mnuThe various Vintyri installers should also back up your original menu files before making changes, so look in the CC3+ data directory for a menu folder, which contains a backup folder. Here you should find your menu files, and you can copy them out to the main data directory. You'll need to rename them to get rid of the date in the filename though, make sure they are named exactly as the original file to replace (and if you rename them after copying them, remember to remove the menu file already present, as you cannot rename a file to the same name as an existing file in the folder)
If that works, you can then run menu_recovery.bat again to reapply the Vintyri changes.
(*Note: I originally made some significant suggestions about this Annual on the cc2-l mailing list that were later appended to the description of the issue as "Additional Material", but this seems to have disappeared. Fortunately I saved this addendum and may repost it if there is any interest.)
Correction: ACKK! I made the recent custom menu from an older one. Turns out I must have uninstalled the Perspective add-on between those two events but before the back-up, so I could have copied the backup menus without changes. Things get confusing when you do this manually.
If you installed everything with the default paths, the first and only line of this file should read
C:\ProgramData\ProFantasy\CC3Plus
None of the Vintyri installers should touch this file, but the documentation do refer to this file for helping you find the location of your data directory, so if you opened this file and accidentally introduced a change to it, this can occur.
Other than that, I am back up and running! Yay!!!