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I work off a thumb drive so I can work from either my desktop at home, or my laptop while at lunch at work.
At lunch today, I sat down to finally finish up the application, and when I tried to load a file in VS, it said the file was not found. Looked on the drive, and sure enough, it was gone.
The problem - it was a base class that had about 90% of the entity rendering code in it.
This is a major setback, and if it wasn't for the fact that we needed this app at work, I'd just say fuk it and abandon the whole project.
I'm severely disappointed and angry about the whole thing. :/
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Do you know what happened? Did someone overwrite it by downloading cat photos?
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You do have a backup though ?
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Of course not... :/
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I didn't dare to ask that, my bulletproof vest is in the dirty laundry atm 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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My condolences. On the plus side, you won't do that again.
You won't, will you?? (Just dump the project off the thumb drive onto both work and home machines each time you swap over; or (what I do normally) is open a free hosted subversion account (or Git) and commit to there when swapping machines.
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DerekT-P wrote: is open a free hosted subversion account (or Git) and commit to there when swapping machines.
That's assuming that such repository software are allowed in his work machine...
Having read previous related messages, I think the DoD doesn't like to make life that easy for their contractors.
M.D.V. 
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If they allow usb data drives then they have stumbled at the first security hurdle.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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GuyThiebaut wrote: If they allow usb data drives then they have stumbled at the first security hurdle.
I have never said, they have common sense 
M.D.V.
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Git is transparent enough, if you can use a thumb drive you can use git.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I don't trust Git - because Microsoft. And their Git account got hacked and 500gb of code was stolen.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Git is entirely local and file system based. GitHub is a hosting service that makes use of git.
With git you can manage your own versionin on your own thumbdrive and sync it with your own computer without any access to the Internet.
I started skeptical towards it, now I manage all my projects, even private ones.
Git command line is stupid complex (powerful, useful for automation) but many clients are portable and easy to use. I personally use SmartGit, which is free for personal use (paid a lifetime license for 80$ cause I use it at work too) but SourceTree is entirely free, I just prefer SmartGit interface.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Git isn't their creation. Would you have said the same thing about it before MS acquired it?
Or did the change in ownership result in said distrust?
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But they own it now, and they've had plenty of time to screw it up...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I don't trust Git - because Microsoft. And their Git account got hacked and 500gb of code was stolen.
However, maybe I've discovered a need to revisit my file synchronizing article ( Synchronicity - A Folder Synchronizing Application [^] ), and set it up on my desktop and laptop to sync files onto the hard drive on the respective boxes. That way, I'll have all of the files on at least one box.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Have you tried disc recovery software? I've retrieved once-in-a-lifetime pix using it in the past
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Source Control? Git? thumbdrive for backup?
I have not used a thumbdrive in years.
Sorry John, I understand you are upset and for good reason, but I DO NOT understand why your important code is not under source control.
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Slacker007 wrote: but I DO NOT understand why your important code is not under source control.
DoD policy?
M.D.V.
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In that case they have the policy "pay-contractors-to-do-work-for-a-second-time-because-something-went-amiss" by extension
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My brother is a civilian software tester for the Air Force and they keep their software under source control.
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Considering that John is not dumb, I suppose that when he was using the USB Stick he should have a good reason.
The rest was just a mix between speculation and joke.
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As someone else suggested, I should use git (or something similar), but the reason I was using a thumb drive (actually a USB nVME drive) for source code is because:
0) I'm running Windows in a VM
1) I needed to be able to work on the code on both a laptop and my desktop
2) I might go weeks without working on one machine or the other
A thumb drive just makes sense (source control makes even more sense - grin). I have no idea what happened because I'm diligent about properly ejecting the usb drive before unplugging it from a given machine. It's been fine for almost two years (maybe I was just pushing my luck though).
As I stated earlier, it looks like I have a reason to use my Synchronicity article. 
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I agree with MadMyche... have you tried disc recovery?
I don't now if you remember two years ago, a relative of mine had a problem with an indian scam center and they deleted the HDD content. I tried a pretty old disc recovery app, and worked like charm. I could recover over 95% of the data. It needed a couple of days (the HDD was 1,5 TB) and then I had to merge 3 different versions of the folders but it was worth the effort.
M.D.V.
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Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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