Woohoo!
When I was forced to switch hosting companies — moving away from Canaca over to MediaTemple — I thought I’d lost my most current version of Aiera’s file archives. Yes, I had backups, but as I have learned over the last few months, I allowed too much time to lapse between backups; there were some files that were, apparently, forever lost.
Today was almost one of those days.
It started with someone asking for me to restore the download for the Ultima 9 Freeform Savegame. Which I finally got around to, today. However, it turned out that the ZIP archive for the savegame was…how shall I say this?…corrupt.
And believe me, there is not another copy of this thing anywhere on the Internet that I (or, rather, Bing and Google) can find. Not good.
So on a whim, I scoured my Gmail archives, and found the IP address for my old hosting server. Hoping against hope, I opened up Filezilla and tried my old account credentials. And somehow (I know not how)…it worked!
Seriously…it was like Christmas, the sequel.
I’m not sure, but I think I might just have everything back. I still have to check, but I’ve got a good feeling about this.
Update: the one file I was missing and feared to be lost — the download for Ultima Underworld for Dungeon Keeper — was among the recovered files. YES!
That’s great to hear. Does that mean you also got those mods you were asking for some time ago?
Quite possibly, yes. I still have to go through everything. But yes, quite possibly.
“the savegame was…how shall I say this?…corrupt.”
That cursed Guardian, attempting to foil Firstknight’s noble efforts to promote greater freedoms of travel in Britannia, has corrupted even the Mod! Quick, seek out the vile pillar, obtain the sigil, and cleanse the shrine!
Heh.
I don’t think Firstknight did that one, though; the Freeform Savegame was, I believe, Novum Dragon’s handiwork.
Could be wrong, though.
But anyhow, yes…danged Guardian. I am in the process of cleansing the shrine at present, by which I mean fixing all my damnable broke downloads.