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16 Apr 2007It is believed here, that Friday 13th is an unlucky day. I didn’t believe it until now, but now I see it really works. My laptop hdd died on Friday, and this laptop was my main development machine. Since I’m doing weekly backups, only few days of work is lost. I was trying to rescue all important data, mainly development tools, documentation and all e-mails. This SATA hdd is able to automatically mark bad blocks and work as usual. However this works only on write to disk, for example when you format your hdd or try to write something on those bad blocks, which is not the case here while reading/rescuing. After 2 days I gave up and I’m getting new hdd and reinstalling everything. I should be setup today or tommorrow. So please if you sent e-mail to me last week, rather resend it. I was about 2-3 days before releasing Beta 7, so after this small unwanted delay it should happen in few next days.
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30 Responses to Friday 13th
Michal
April 16th, 2007 at 10:48 am
That’s sad. Good luck with rewriting what you lost.
Christoph
April 16th, 2007 at 11:25 am
The Dog ate my Homework
No, honestly, sorry to hear that. I can wait for a couple of days….
Brian
April 16th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
Ouch. That sucks.
Time to up it to “every-other-day” backups.
Henrik
April 16th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
Setting up a small CVS or Subversion (SVN) server isn’t difficult, and combined with a tool like TortoiseCVS or TortoiseSVN (if you’re on Windows) is a breeze.. Snapshots from your development machines would then be a breeze to do several times a day (a one-click affair), plus you get full traceability of the code. Even if you only do weekly backups of the server, you’ve still spread the code on several machines so that in case of a hdd failure you have an up-to-date version of the code on another one.
Pavel Kanzelsberger
April 16th, 2007 at 9:36 pm
I’m using SVN repository, but I wasn’t committing changes on daily basis, only when I was going to checkout latest revision on different computer. Now I see, I will commit changes few times a day
Anonymous
April 17th, 2007 at 7:57 am
Getdataback is the best software for recovering files. It has helped me in the past.
http://www.runtime.org/
Elf0
April 18th, 2007 at 7:16 pm
Ouch, that sucks. I hope that with beta7 you’ll earn much more money than the one needed to repay your hdd.
Peter
April 18th, 2007 at 7:40 pm
Any updates on recovery and progress?
Hesperaux
April 19th, 2007 at 6:15 am
Strangely, I’m not excited… That depresses me. Argh.
David
Jeff
April 19th, 2007 at 11:26 pm
that is unfortunate. I hope you can get back on track again with minimal headaches. Good luck buddy.
alecks
April 20th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
betaaa sevvveennnnnnnnn…………….
Josh
April 23rd, 2007 at 9:19 am
Any news about recovering status and release day of Beta 7?
Michel
April 25th, 2007 at 7:19 am
Yeah,
I sure would like to know, i don’t hope that there is more data lost than assumed in the first place .. I just bought pixel and i’m really looking forward to an update but never the less i would like to thank Pavel for his outstanding work. I have good faith in this project and i hope that the program will roll out to be one of the biggest on the web.
and it’s not that much yet, but one thing would be great that the hard core buyers the ones that have faith in you and already bought the program could get a life time membership or something like that 
) so that’s said i thank Pavel again for his great program.
( to bad it’s not free but i understand that Pavel also has to eat
Greetz,
Michel
amiet
April 25th, 2007 at 11:05 am
Any news on Beta 7?
okthxbye
Metalelf0
April 26th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
2-3 days before releasing… next few days… Pavel, Pavel! You’ll never learn!
Cinic
April 27th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
Metalelf0,
He learns. From the Duke Nukem Forever project… >;-)
Hesperaux
April 28th, 2007 at 4:27 am
He may never learn, but we will. Stop expecting things, guys.
Dave
Christoph
April 30th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
This nothing to do with expecting. We paid for the program as a beta and we are waiting now since nearly 4 month for the next version. This is not ok. The behaviour of this “company” is not very professional, at least we could get more information.
Hesperaux
May 2nd, 2007 at 3:49 am
Trust me, I agree, but saying stuff has not changed a thing so far. I have just given up by now. I used to care/be optimistic/etc, but now I just check the site placidly, and if there is no b7, then i say “oh what a surprise,” and move on. I haven’t been able to do images in months, so it’s no big deal anymore.
Dave
Frank
May 3rd, 2007 at 11:14 am
Hi,
as I said in “Schedule”, comment #61 Pavel should release Beta 7 about 15th May. Maybe this will happen.
Frank
floogy
May 3rd, 2007 at 11:20 am
I guess, it would be far more better if Pavel give us some updated news about progress and pace, as he already told in “Schedule”.
Hesperaux
May 4th, 2007 at 4:35 am
Yeah I read that back then. I was pretty sure he was being hypothetical to set up a situation.
Josh
May 11th, 2007 at 11:13 pm
Update? Please? I asked nicely…
Hesperaux
May 12th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
Lol, still no release lol. xD Lawlcat.
David
Chris Brainard
May 15th, 2007 at 12:48 am
Well this is becoming pretty dissapointing, just one thing after another and promise after promise broken. 2 days of work missing it takes more than a month to recover when you have SVN??? Get some other programmers to help you on this project or it is basically just dead as someone else is going to come along and create something similar that has faster production and less bugs.
Christoph
May 16th, 2007 at 11:36 am
Ok, you are even worse than Microsoft.
Is it now already a 5 month delay of beta7? Common, its getting ridecolous..
Jack
May 18th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
Common, any news at least ?
Even if it is not ready, you could at least keep us informed about everything …
Kyle James
May 19th, 2007 at 10:41 am
I can’t wait for beta 7 either. Although, I wouldn’t pressure the guy too much. I mean he is pretty much making a clone of Photoshop. Which isn’t an easy thing to do.
Regardless, I really hope it is much more stable than beta 6. Ever since I have owned pixel, it has been the stability that has bothered me. I only bought pixel, because I didn’t own a license to Photoshop. Whenever, I can justify paying anywhere from $400-$700 for Photoshop, I am switching back to Photoshop.
No offense to the maker of Pixel, it is just that I am too darn used to Photoshop and I love it. Can’t wait for that Beta 7!
Hesperaux
May 22nd, 2007 at 6:49 am
I hear ya man. I might do the very same thing. I know photoshop the way my dog knows how to spin three times before napping. (I don’t have a dog, but if I did.) I switched to Pixel so I could start selling my work. I couldn’t sell anything (nor would I try to), an educational version.
I’m anxious for beta 7 because it will unlock the tools that I use constantly (talking about the BrushFX set of tools that is completely disabled…) and it won’t crash every five seconds. If I had those two things (oh and a transform tool that works) I could wait for a year on another beta, because I would have what I needed – the very basics. THEN it could be improved and I could start loving Pixel. Till then, I’m stuck doing absolutely no images, except occasionally playing around with Pixel effects and making random stuff.
David
Steve Karg
June 18th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
I read the interview in Linux Journal about Pixel and you. Nice work!
Regarding lost e-mail – get a GMail account to funnel your mail. GMail can fetch mail from your other e-mail accounts. You can fetch mail from GMail using POP3 and via web browser. It makes a good always-on backup for personal mail. There are also 3rd party tools for importing your existing mail to GMail. The nice side benefit is being able to read/reply from any web browser when you travel since it permits you to use your existing e-mail address as the reply-from.
Best Regards,
Steve