Well, here is my story. I suggest you to read it about two times, since it is pretty complex (even if it is in chronological order) and because probably you wont understand a thing of what I am saying
Once upon a time, about on Feb 2004 I started working on a new Red Alert 2 mod. After 7 days of hard work i resigned to continue, since there were impossible problems everywhere. But it was becoming a good mod.
Then about on July 2004 I decided to "repair" this mod (after having became more experienced than before) and I worked for about 3 weeks. I inserted my first voxels, I solved many bugs; it was becoming pretty fun. However I was tired. My voxels were only monocolor (since GMax exports models only with one colour), so I tried to find a good vxl program to paint them. After 5 days of continue research (and terrible downloaded programs) I decided to restart modding "on a undefined date".
It's about on September that I installed Norton Antivirus 2004 on my newest computer. What does it mean? It means that all files eliminated from now on are eliminated forever, without chance of retrieving them.
A - B - C
December 1st. I changed computer. My oldest computer A (after backuping files) goes away, the new one B became "the oldest one" and takes the zone of computer A and the last one C takes the zone of the newly-transferred computer B.
On computer B (where the mod was resident), I backuped my files because I was planning to format the computer. The mod was included in the backup. Then I eliminated (through Norton Delete) all the other useless files. Today I still have to format this computer.
Just yesterday 5 January 2005 I decided for the second time to reinstall Red Alert 2 (and to re-join Deezire forum), and I discovered that I backuped an old version of my mod, and i eliminated the latest one!
So, I know there are programs to retrieve files from the recycle bin. But are there programs able to retrieve files from the norton Recycle Bin? Or my mod is forever lost?
...The Story Continues...
I lost my mod!
