Trembling Essence Devlog 20: ⚠️🛠️Recovering my old laptop🛠️⚠️
Hi hellooo guys hope all is going well through the month of August, here's another transparent update on how things are going behind the scenes since my old laptop crashed on July 24th.
*There's been a small recent influx of support towards the game and newcomers while I've been very quiet so I'd just like to let you know, I post small sneak peeks giving basic updates about game development on here now so if you're interested in seeing the full in-depth progress update and/or even be in the credits of the full game, join my ->[Patreon!] It serves as a monthly-tip jar / game credit perk for those that would like to support the development of the game! This helps me greatly behind the scenes!🌻💛
Were you able to fix it now?:
I still haven't yet unfortunately. Windows is working on the "old laptop" through the SSD I was temporarily given which means it's still functionable but my operating system isn't detecting my actual hard drive at all.
After so much troubleshooting and trying different ways to recover my data/make it detectable again I went ahead and tried reaching out a bit further to get outside help again. After some back and forth it ended up turning into something where I'll have no choice but to take it to a shop which is a genuine last resort.
I found around 1~3 shops that I'm really hoping are affordable and trustworthy enough to help:
- The first one is very reputable and are willing to troubleshoot it for free but they are very far away and if I do go with them it'll take them an extra 1~2 months to fix. :,,/
- The second one looks promising and also does troubleshooting for free BUT I am unsure of the price or if they'll be able to fix what's specifically wrong with my "old laptop".
- The third one seems decently reputable enough to fix the issues however the ratings are lower and I couldn't find too much information about how much things would be.
External hard drive testing:
In between all of this I tried what I've learned since the crash and applied it towards the external hard drive instead since it didn't crash but "glitched out" to see if anything would be recoverable.
Did it work?:
It did but everything that got recovered was in numbers and not organized by date so I'm still looking through all of it which includes several zipped files and a bunch of miscellaneous stuff mixed in.
Sadly I haven't found:
- All game development progress from March up until July 24th
- The "guide-mark" + other things I had written in my notes
- Day 4
- The new user interface for the game + resources
- Some of Noah's Voice lines
- Certain folders etc. / Anything I had saved on the laptop and not on the back up hard drive.
- My drawing tablet program
With all of this being said, I'll give an update on how things turn out after getting my "old laptop" checked out at the shop and I am praying for a miracle that I'll be able to get everything back.
**In the case things don't work out the only thing I can do is start everything that I'm missing over from scratch which will take a good chunk of my time to go through AND I DO NOT want to accidently give myself another episode of "burn out" like I did earlier this year. If anything, I feel more tired than I do "burnt out" from all of this but at least I can recover from that quicker. :,P
Going into September I'd like to call it "Recovery month". Depending on how things continue to go I'll be doing a lot of cleaning up behind the scenes for a smoother transition into Day 4 etc. again so I'll try not to be extremely quiet this time around. :,]
Overall, thank you guys for all the patience and helpful messages while I try to sort this out because even though I haven't found what I've been looking for through the recovery files, this whole situation could've been SO MUCH WORSE had I not kept most of everything backed up on the external hard drive.
If anyone has any advice or guide into fixing the issue regarding the crash I'd really appreciate the help! :,,]