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Goreys: Gone!
Oct. 17th, 2009 05:01 pmIt's true, the Massive Hard Drive Meltdown means I have lost ALL my Sims. All the Goreys, all the Rosales-Varmas, every house I ever made myself (the house from My Neighbor Totoro!), everything is gone. The old hard drive can't even keep enough of a flicker of life in it to get a decent image off of it.
I still have some Gorey snapshots left uploaded to my Photobucket account, so I guess I'll make one or two last few posts with what's left there. Then, they'll be gone. I guess I failed that Legacy Challenge pretty badly, only getting to Generation Three before they all went to the giant Sim-bin in the sky.
I am planning to reinstall the game as soon as I can. I'm trying to look at it as an opportunity to start over fresh, be organized from the very beginning with my CC, all that fun stuff. I know there will be some things I can't find again, but hopefully I can track them down somewhere. (And if not, is it really so bad? There's so much beautiful CC out there to choose from.) I'm making a list right now of the default replacements I want to put in for sure, and rebuilding my bookmarks list of my favorite CC sites. I might try doing that clean neighborhood template thing, even, because I want to see my face defaults and skins start right from the beginning. I'm getting all my related helper programs ready now too- the Compressorizer, the Wardrobe Wrangler, CleanInstaller, etc. So, I guess it's not the end of the world. I'm doing okay with it.
I don't know if I will start the Goreys over again, but I might. We shall see. If I did, I might start it as a different branch of the family, since it would be weird to try to recreate Friedrich.
Oh, and when I bought my new replacement hard drive, I also bought a brand new external hard drive. Can you say weekly backups? I knew you could! We will never again have the burning.
I still have some Gorey snapshots left uploaded to my Photobucket account, so I guess I'll make one or two last few posts with what's left there. Then, they'll be gone. I guess I failed that Legacy Challenge pretty badly, only getting to Generation Three before they all went to the giant Sim-bin in the sky.
I am planning to reinstall the game as soon as I can. I'm trying to look at it as an opportunity to start over fresh, be organized from the very beginning with my CC, all that fun stuff. I know there will be some things I can't find again, but hopefully I can track them down somewhere. (And if not, is it really so bad? There's so much beautiful CC out there to choose from.) I'm making a list right now of the default replacements I want to put in for sure, and rebuilding my bookmarks list of my favorite CC sites. I might try doing that clean neighborhood template thing, even, because I want to see my face defaults and skins start right from the beginning. I'm getting all my related helper programs ready now too- the Compressorizer, the Wardrobe Wrangler, CleanInstaller, etc. So, I guess it's not the end of the world. I'm doing okay with it.
I don't know if I will start the Goreys over again, but I might. We shall see. If I did, I might start it as a different branch of the family, since it would be weird to try to recreate Friedrich.
Oh, and when I bought my new replacement hard drive, I also bought a brand new external hard drive. Can you say weekly backups? I knew you could! We will never again have the burning.
