A minor moment of pride...

[Bog]

So I'm sat here with a sequence that isn't quite right. 500 odd frames, 10 hours to render on the mainbox. Got my slightly-melted ex-mainbox, got the laptop.

The mainbox is running XP Media Centre Ediiton.
The ex-mainbox is limping XP Pro
The laptop's running XP Home over WiFI.

"Heck with it", think I and just map C:\Program Files\NewTek\LightWave 3D 9\ as M:\, map my projects folder as N:\, backup and edit my .cfgs in Documents and Settings\HP Adminitrator and dump 'em in M:\Configs

God, I hate things that put spaces in filenames. I really do. Here's why.

Now, this project I've been working on has all been done on the one workstation - it's been too much of a mess for me to do the necessary futzing about (including swizzing off the XP Pro install from the ex-mainbox and putting it onto the gizmo-redolent new mainbox), and I've been working stoopid hours, shambling around like a zombie and the like, and it all comes down to this...

Is there anywhere, or anything in this scene that's got a space in it's filename? Any image? Any object? (out of hundreds)

It seems not. The shortcuts were duly created, the Screamernet ticked over on it's three nodes just right the first time, and an eyeball check of the first 40 frames seems to be just fine! Despite nagging worries about "maximum allowed connections" and that sort of thing in XP MCE, it all seems to be doing just great.

So I'm blimmin' shattered, but just for right now, I'll feel a little glow of pride in myself - if only technically rather than artistically - and listen to the hum of the computers surrounding me as they tank through the frames.

*sigh*

Sorry, chaps and chapettes - just couldn't think of another venue to share a little tale of a small thing going right :)

[BeeVee]

Felt the same way this weekend when I discovered that my wife's email had been munged. I found the previoius mail file still in its space on C: (I had created new mailboxes and copied over the mails before put put the mailboxes somewhere easy to get to on my new driver H:). Thought I have to concatenate the mail files but didn't have enough memory to do so, even when booting in safe mode, so here's how to do it if you use Thunderbird: Just rename the old inbox file and copy it to the same place as the new one with the .msf file renamed appropriately and Thunderbird will open it up like another mail folder. Then copy the mails from one to the other and quit Tbird, then you can delete the old, renamed inbox file.

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[habañero]

I copied a valuable ntfs xp installation over to a fresh (same disc and computer but nothing installed) last week. What I did was first use and utility to unlock some files, and then I used a single good ole drag-and-drop of all the files from the old drive, onto the files in the empty new installation, and this one was fat32. Worked wonderfully, it really shouldn't !! :D